He was the first surgeon of the hospital and linked with Gaetano Zumbo for the presentation of anatomical waxes, after his estrangement with the latter, he collaborated with François De la Croix who was an ivory sculptor.
[2] Alfred Franklin notes in his Dictionary: "Desnoues having completed his work opened in the rue de Tournon, a museum made up of numerous wax pieces.
One admired there above all a whole man, a girl about twelve years old, a woman nine month, "with the child still lying in the womb.
Everything there is so just and natural that nothing is missing even in the smallest veins; the wax being sometimes red, sometimes white, blue, mixed, according to the various colors of the fleshy parts or veins of the human body [Nemeitz, Séjour de Paris , vol.
Vigneul-Marville, who had seen all this, also praises it highly [ Mixtures of History and Literature, t. III, p. 307.].