Although painted in a naïve manner, with simple shapes and large blocks of colour, the painting may be based on Rousseau's observations of animals at the Jardin des Plantes and of reconstructed colonial villages at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
The painting, although executed in an innocent manner with simple shapes and large areas of color, is likely based on Rousseau's studies of animals at the Jardin des Plantes and his observations of recreated colonial villages at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.