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
- ^ 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."
- ^ a b Rouvalis, Cristina (2016). "Lion Attacking A Dromedary". Carnegie Magazine. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gilliland, Donald (29 January 2017). "'High art' with human skull goes on display at Carnegie museum". TribLive. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ WorldCat Identities (publications)