The Dream is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. The self-taught painter was a crucial precedent for Surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, who also relied on incongruous combinations and dream imagery to create mysterious, unforgettable pictures. Rousseau's earlier works had received a negative reception, but poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire remarked on its debut: "The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable. I believe nobody will laugh this year." The painting features an almost surreal landscape of lush jungle foliage, including lotus flowers and animals like birds, monkeys, an elephant, a lion and lioness, and a snake. The setting was inspired by his visits to Paris’s Jardin des Plantes, a combined botanical garden and zoo and we think is a perfect fit for a stand out swim trunk.