Above & left: Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), le Douanier, whose "jungle" scenes frequently figure tigers. Above, The Dream (1910), painted in the last year of the artist's life. A legend had developed, quite without foundation, that Rousseau as a young man had gone to Mexico and served under Maximilian to get the background for his jungle scenes (the mundane reality was the Paris zoo).

… one dreamed frequently of dying, bitten by lions, in the desert, at the last calling for the guitar, strumming to the end – UTV, 178.

Below: Hugh's sentiment is shaped by Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy (1897).