Artist: Henri Rousseau
Year: 1910
Medium: Oil on canvas
Horse Attacked by a Jaguar is a painting created by the French artist Henri Rousseau around 1910. This work draws on the imagery of the jungle, a theme that was very prevalent in the arts at that time. The artist is particularly renowned for this type of painting. This naive oil-on-canvas painting depicts a white horse being attacked by a jaguar in a jungle where the overgrown vegetation seems to be part of the assault. It is housed at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia.
record scratch freeze frame Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation
Looks like a horse biting a jaguar.
Reminds me of Max Ernst.
Rousseau is sometimes cited as a precursor to Surrealism, even though he was self-taught with no formal academic training and is usually classified as a Naïve or Primitive painter.
But yes, that’s true - there are certainly some similarities to the paintings of Max Ernst: an interest in dreams, the unconscious, and irrational visual worlds and so on. Both Rousseau (through his fantastical scenes) and Max Ernst (as a leading Surrealist) drew on the uncanny and the dreamlike.
Either way, I think both have interesting paintings.
You forgot to credit Team Cherry for contributing the horse.
