Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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132 Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Kangaroo skeleton Squelette de kangourou 1802–04 pen and ink, wash Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 80267 Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Emu Emeu 1802–04 pencil Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 79002 © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.
Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Emu Emeu 1802–04 watercolour on vellum Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 79001.1 Baudin’s ship the Géographe transported two small emus from King Island (Dromaius ater) and Kangaroo Island (Dromaius baudinianus) back to France for Josephine. Both of these birds were from species soon made extinct by the predation of English sealers. After spending eleven months at Malmaison, Josephine’s emus were transferred to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, which had its own zoo. Here they outlived both Napoleon and Josephine, the last of them dying in 1822. 133 © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.
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Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR<br />
French 1778–1846<br />
Emu<br />
Emeu<br />
1802–04<br />
watercolour on vellum<br />
Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 79001.1<br />
Baudin’s ship the Géographe transported<br />
two small emus from King Island<br />
(Dromaius ater) and Kangaroo Island<br />
(Dromaius baudinianus) back to France for<br />
Josephine. Both <strong>of</strong> these birds were from<br />
species soon made extinct by the predation<br />
<strong>of</strong> English sealers. After spending eleven<br />
months at Malmaison, Josephine’s emus<br />
were transferred to the Museum <strong>of</strong> Natural<br />
History in Paris, which had its own zoo.<br />
Here they outlived both Napoleon and<br />
Josephine, the last <strong>of</strong> them dying in 1822.<br />
133<br />
© COPYRIGHT<br />
This document remains the property <strong>of</strong> the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.
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