Indian Struggling with a Gorilla ☳ Rousseau ☵ Canvas nature This print depicts a scene

This print depicts a scene from the story of Kohada Koheiji

where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society

at a time when he himself was in poor health

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886) by Georges Seurat is his most famous painting

The Musketeer (1903) by Henri Matisse depicts a man dressed in traditional musketeer attire

Indian Struggling with a Gorilla ☳ Rousseau ☵ Canvas nature This print depicts a sceneTropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla (1910) by Henri Rousseau is emblematic of his characteristically inaccurate depictions and mixing of exotic peoples, animals and plant life. It depicts an American Indian fighting a gorilla in a lush, tropical jungle setting, presenting his sincere fascination and curiosity for non European cultures, which he perceived as poetic. The fight between man and beast, against a background of