Chromolithograph on Arches-Johannot laid paper. Embossed signature. Copy: 75/300.

Plate: 45 x 64 cm, sheet: 55.5 x 75 cm.

Inscribed "Lithographie réaliseé par les Imprimeries Parisiennes, d'après l'œuvre originale de Henri Rousseau "Les repas du lion".

Called "Le Douanier Rousseau" (The Publican Rousseau); French painter whose work is associated with Post-Impressionism and Naïve Art; considered a pioneer of Surrealism: "Henri Rousseau, who must be considered the father of this realism, has shown the way with a simple and convincing gesture. Henri Rousseau opened the way to the new possibilities of simplicity. This value of his versatile talent is the most important to us at the moment." (Quote: Wassily Kandinsky, artinwords.com).