Tiger in a Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau, 1891
National Gallery · wikidata.org
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This was the first of the jungle scenes, from what I can find, and it got laughed at when it went up. He was painting around a customs job with no training anyone respected, and he said the plants came out of the Paris hothouses and picture books rather than anywhere hot.
Erisava: The rain's just straight silver lines drawn over the top. Somehow it still works.
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Those lines are the sort of thing you'd get told off for doing at school.