In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
This work is on display in the exhibition Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets in the Barnes Foundation's Roberts Gallery, October 19, 2025 through February 22, 2026 and at the Musée de l'Orangerie, March 24-July 20, 2026. The large-scale jungle scenes of Henri Rousseau are rife with violent struggles between wild animals such as lions, tigers, and horses. Here, a hunter rescues a nude bather from a sharp-clawed bear. The figure stands in a gesture of calm surrender, revealing dirty palms, while the man fires his gun at the beast. Rousseau's painting reads at first like a classic "damsel in distress." And yet the closer one looks, the stranger the picture becomes, and the harder the narrative is to decipher.
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Max Beckmann — Adam and Eve
Arthur B. Davies — Sweet Tremulous Leaves
André Derain — Nude
Arthur B. Davies — Stars and Dews and Dreams of Night
Louis Eilshemius — Nude Ascending
Théodore Caruelle d' Aligny (French, 1798–1871) — The Bather
Kenneth Hayes Miller — Landscape with Figures
Ernst Georg Rüegg — Grimmige Tiere und wilde Männer bedrohen
Arthur Bowen Davies — Dionysos
Arthur Bowen Davies — Source
Max Klinger — Bathers
Karl Walser — Steinträger
