Henri Rousseau's The Repast of the Lion, painted around 1907, belongs to the invented jungle scenes for which the self-taught painter — a former customs official who never left France — became known, its dense, patterned foliage assembled from botanical illustrations and greenhouse visits rather than direct observation of any tropical landscape. The flattened perspective and meticulous, almost naive rendering of individual leaves reflect Rousseau's outsider position relative to the trained painters of his generation, a status that has itself become central to how his work is read. Oil on canvas, the picture entered the collection through the bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn in 1951. Scion treats an artist's documented biography, however unconventional, as integral background for assessing a work's historical and market context.