Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo

Bought from the artist by Ambroise Vollard on 14 December 1909. Bought by John Quinn, New York, October 1923. Quinn estate from 1924. Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, Chicago, by 1926. Mrs. Patrick J. Hill, Washington D.C. [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948] Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art on 14 June 1949.

In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). Masterpieces of Art. Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, WA (organizer) (April 21-September 4, 1962). Henri Rousseau. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (April 16-May 25, 1963). Le Monde Des Neifs (De Lusthof Der Naieven). Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (July 10-September 6, 1964); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Cedex 04, France (October 14-December 6, 1964). Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (January 24-March 7, 1965); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 28-May 16, 1965); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 14-August 22, 1965). Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). Henri Rousseau and the Modern Age. Künsthalle Tubingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany (organizer) (February 3-June 17, 2001). Jungles in Paris: The Paintings of Henri Rousseau. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 3, 2005-February 5, 2006); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 13-June 19, 2006); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (July 16-October 15, 2006). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). The Shadow of the Avant-Garde. Museum Folkwang, 45128 Essen, Germany (organizer) (October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016). Le Douanier Rousseau. L'innocence archaïque. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (March 21-July 17, 2016); National Gallery, Prague (September 16, 2016-January 15, 2017). Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (October 19, 2025-February 22, 2026) https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/exhibitions/henri-rousseau-a-painters-secrets?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20125069632&gbraid=0AAAAACP5DbL4rs-9EfKRpQcP3HjjlYEfb&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0NPGBhCDARIsAGAzpp0GmWNK1KSSGhKIsZvvTWdQSwfepIT4aDadyzyDDvYho3pdqzpJPgMaAr91EALw_wcB; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (March 24-July 20, 2026). Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants. 24me exposition (1908), no. 5260, Combat de Tigre et de Buffle (for sale). Chicago, Arts Club Exhibitions at the Art Institute. Loan Exhibition of Some Modern Paintings (1926-27), no. 14, The Jungle, lent by Mrs. John A. Carpenter. New York, Reinhardt Gallery. Loan Exhibition of Paintings from Memling, Holbein, and Titian to Renoir and Picasso (1928), no. 27, The Jungle, lent by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (repr.) New York, Valentine Gallery. Six Major Paintings by the Modern Masters of France, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and One Important Work by Henri Rousseau (1930), no. 7, Le tigre et le rhinocéros-1908. Arts Club of Chicago. Paintings by Henri Rousseau (1931), no. 7, The Jungle, collection of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, Chicago. New York, Museum of Modern Art. Fruit and Flower Paintings (1933), no cat. Art Institute of Chicago. A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture (1933 and 1934), no. 368 (1933); no. 321 (1934), lent by Mrs. Patrick J. Hill to the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Museum of Modern Art. Henri Rousseau (1942-43), 49 (repr.) (lent by Hill, according to 1942 moma label on the back of the frame; according to moma archives, the painting did not travel to other venues after New York), 64. New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery. Twentieth Century Masters (1948), no. 12, The Jungle (repr.). Venice. XXV Biennale di Venezia (1950), 235, no. 14, fig. 59. Montreal Museum of Art. Six Centuries of Landscape (1952), no. 58, 29 (repr.). Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. L'oeuvre du XXe siècle (1952), no. 98. London, Tate Gallery (Organized by the Arts Council). XXth Century Masterpieces (1952), no. 83. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum. Twentieth Anniversary Celebration: French Paintings-19th and 20th Centuries-A Loan Exhibition (1953), checklist no. 10. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery. Fifty Paintings 1905-1913 (1955), no. 42, 64 (repr.). Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, in The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 1 (December 1958), no. 9. Seattle World's Fair, Fine Art Pavillion. Masterpieces of Art (1962), no. 53 (repr.). New York, Wildenstein. Loan Exhibition Henri Rousseau (1963), no. 46 (repr.). Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. De Lusthof der Naïeven (1964), no. 20 (repr.). Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Le Monde des Naifs (1964), no. 20 (repr.). Los Angeles, ucla Art Galleries; San Francisco Museum of Art; cma. Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth Century Art 1886-1914 (1965), 38 (repr.), no. 47 (repr. on cover). Paris, Grand Palais; New York, Museum of Modern Art. Henri Rousseau (1984-85), no. 50 (repr.) (not shown in Paris). CMA. Creativity in Art and Science (1987), no. 18 (repr.). Tübingen, Germany: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany. Henri Rousseau and the Modern Age (2/3/01 - 6/17/01), exh. cat. no. 43, pp 209-211, repr. p. 211, detail front and back. Tate Modern, London (11/3/2005 - 2/5/2006), Galeries du Grand Palais, Paris (3/13/2006 - 6/19/2006) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (7/16/2006 - 10/15/2006): "Jungles in Paris: The Paintings of Henri Rousseau" ex. cat. no. 45, p. 148-149. CMA (organizer). Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art" Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (3/21/2016 - 7/17/2016): "Le Douanier Rousseau. L'innocence archaïque" cat. no. 89, p. 232-233.