One of the characters in The Bones of Paris is an artist whose work includes taxidermy. His is a somewhat kinkier version of the Victorian…artist?…Walter Potter, whose work includes scenes like this:
(You can read more about him here.)
But lest you think Paris is without its stuffed creatures, I bring to your attention Maison Deyrolle, for all your taxidermy needs. (here or, in English, here.) Looking for a rhino’s head?
Or maybe a flock of owls to chase away the mice?
What I’d really love is to wallpaper a room, maybe in beetles.
I wonder if Harris Stuyvesant made it into Maison Deyrolle, in 1929?
LRK books for All Hallows:
The Bones of Paris, here.
“Hellbender”, here.
All I can think to say is….ewwwwwwww….
yuck! I can just see some of the Dadaists liking this stuff.