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The Repast of the Lion by Henri Rousseau, 1907
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
He'd never seen a jungle. From what I've read the closest he got was the glasshouses at the botanical gardens in Paris, and he built the plants up from there. He had a day job and taught himself, and the critics gave him a hard time for it.
Erisava: Those plants look like houseplants that got out of hand.