Édouard Verreaux

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

[1] In 1830, Verreaux travelled to South Africa to help his brother pack up a large consignment of specimens.

Verreaux designed and constructed the orientalist taxidermy diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary for the Paris Exposition of 1867, where it won a gold medal.

[4] 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.