Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (16 September 1810 – 14 March 1868) was a French naturalist, taxidermist, collector, and dealer. Botanist and

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Jules Verreaux Jules Pierre Verreaux (24 August 1807 – 7 September 1873) was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens. He was the brother of Édouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Dela ...

was his older brother.

Career

In 1830, Verreaux travelled to South Africa to help his brother pack up a large consignment of specimens. He returned in 1832 before continuing to

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, Java, the Philippines and Indo-China. In 1834, he took control of the family's natural history business in Paris.

''Lion Attacking a Dromedary''

Verreaux designed and constructed the orientalist taxidermy

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Lion Attacking a Dromedary ''Lion Attacking a Dromedary'' is an orientalist diorama by French taxidermist Édouard Verreaux in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It depicts a fictional scene of a man on a dromedary struggling to fend off an attac ...

'' for the

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, where it won a gold medal. After the exposition, it was sold to the

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, who exhibited it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. The diorama was sold to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1898, where it was displayed until its removal in 2020. The museum cited the work's lack of cultural accuracy and concerns raised by the Black Lives Matter movement as the reasons for the removal.

Associated writings

* ''L'Océanie en Estampes, ou description géographie et historique de toutes les Îles du grand océan et du continent de la Nouvelle Hollande ...'' (with Jules Verreaux), 1832 – Prints of Oceania, or geographical and historical description of all the islands of the Pacific Ocean and the continent of New Holland. * ''Catalogue des objets d'histoire naturelle : composant le cabinet de Mm. Veraux, pére et fils, naturalistes préparateurs, boulevard Montmartre, No. 6'', 1833 – Cataloged objects of natural history, component of the firm Veraux, father and son, preparer-naturalists, Boulevard Montmartre, No. 6. * ''Catalogue d'oiseaux'', 1849 – Catalog of birds. * ''Catalogue des Oiseaux disponibles dans la maison d'E. Verreaux'', 1868 – Catalog of birds found in the house of E. Verreaux.WorldCat Identities
(publications)

References

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