Édouard Verreaux

Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (16 September 1810 – 14 March 1868) was a French naturalist, taxidermist, collector, and dealer. Botanist and ornithologist Jules Verreaux was his older brother.[1]

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

Verreaux designed and built the orientalist taxidermy diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary for the Paris Exposition of 1867, where it won a gold medal.[2][3] After the exposition it was sold to the American Museum of Natural History, who exhibited it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.[4] Carnegie Museum of Natural History—the diorama's owner since 1898—removed it from display in 2020, citing the work's lack of cultural accuracy and the Black Lives Matter movement.[2]

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.[5]

References
  1. Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques pour servir à l'histoire des oiseaux fossiles de la France A. Milne-Edwards - 1868 "... remercier MM. Jules et Édouard Verreaux de leur utile concours."
  2. Rouvalis, Cristina (2016). "Lion Attacking A Dromedary". Carnegie Magazine. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  3. Tait, Peta (2016). "War with animals". Fighting nature: Travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows. Sydney University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9781743324318. JSTOR j.ctt1dt00vp.6.
  4. Gilliland, Donald (29 January 2017). "'High art' with human skull goes on display at Carnegie museum". TribLive. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  5. WorldCat Identities (publications)
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