{"product_id":"henri-rousseau-fight-between-a-tiger-and-a-buffalo-1908-giclee-print","title":"Henri Rousseau – Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tiger has a buffalo by the throat in the middle of a jungle that never existed. Around them: banana clusters hanging like lanterns, orange fruit, a fan of blades, and a wall of green built leaf by leaf up to a strip of pale sky. The two animals are almost the smallest thing in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRousseau never saw a jungle.\u003c\/strong\u003e He was a Paris customs officer who painted in his free time and never left France. The plants come from the hothouses of the Jardin des Plantes, the animals from an illustrated picture book of wild beasts; the scale is impossible, the botany invented, the light of no particular continent. This is one of the late jungles — 1908, two years before his death — from the run of pictures that had been laughed at for twenty years and were about to be taken seriously by Picasso, Delaunay and everyone after them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy it works as a wall.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is no horizon and no vanishing point. The picture is built in flat layers, like a stage set, so it reads at any distance: from across the room a dark green field with one orange accident in it; up close several hundred individually drawn leaves and a tiger with yellow eyes. Ninety-nine per cent of the canvas carries colour and seven eighths of that colour is green — the second greenest sheet in this shop, after Rousseau’s own \u003cem\u003eEquatorial Jungle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s own open-access photograph of the canvas. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eOriginal: 170 × 189.5 cm — oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e50 × 50 cm \/ 19.7 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — reduced, 0.22× original. Image 42.00 × 37.63 cm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e70 × 70 cm \/ 27.6 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — reduced, 0.31× original. Image 58.80 × 52.68 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo crop.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rousseau painted to all four edges and the museum photographed the canvas edge to edge. We scanned every column of the top and bottom edges and every row of the sides for a rim of bare canvas: the median is three to five pixels, the worst run half a millimetre on the left. There is no studio backdrop anywhere at the margin. So the file is printed whole; nothing has been trimmed and nothing added.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the borders.\u003c\/strong\u003e The canvas is almost square — 1.116 wide to tall — so on both sheets the width binds at the house 84 %: 4.00 cm at the sides on the small sheet and 5.60 on the large one, with the deeper margins above and below (5.75 and 6.62, then 8.05 and 9.26). Both sit at optical centre, 1:1.15, not in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cleveland scans its paintings as uncompressed TIFF; this one is 12,503 × 11,202 pixels and 420 megabytes. That is 756 dpi at the small size and 540 at the large one, against our flat 300 dpi — the most matte fine art paper resolves. At that floor the file would carry an image 106 cm wide. The sheet is the limit here, not the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910), \u003cem\u003eFight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e, 1908. Signed lower right.\u003cbr\u003e Oil on fabric, 170 × 189.5 cm.\u003cbr\u003e Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, acc. no. 1949.186.\u003cbr\u003e Public domain. The museum publishes its photograph under Creative Commons Zero.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The colour of the museum’s file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e — how the file, not the sheet, sets the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"50 × 50 cm \/ 19.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.22× original","offer_id":65816061772125,"sku":"MUS-057-5050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"70 × 70 cm \/ 27.6 × 27.6 in — Reduced, 0.31× original","offer_id":65816061804893,"sku":"MUS-057-7070","price":109.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-rousseau-tiger-buffalo-plate.jpg?v=1788590102","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/henri-rousseau-fight-between-a-tiger-and-a-buffalo-1908-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}