The Gaze on Instagram: "🦁🌿 Welcome to the jungle. Henri Rousseau’s jungle! ‘The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope’ (1905) is one of many of Rousseau’s weird but beautiful jungle paintings. 💰 Rousseau was nicknamed ‘le douanier’ (the customs officer) because he was a toll and tax collector in Paris. Until he started painting and realized this was what he wanted to do. 🎨 He never went to art school and was almost entirely self-taught. The result is a style that was so-called “naïve” an