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Henri Rousseau unveiled this canvas at the Paris Salon of 1891 — his first jungle painting. A Bengal tiger crouches in dense vegetation, caught mid-stalk by a sudden storm. A self-taught toll collector who never left France, Rousseau built this world from pure imagination.
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