'Le Paon Bleu' [Cuckoo wrasse] Product:Canvas 'The mare's lamentation

'The mare's lamentation

with a long blue robe trimmed with fur

where a turtle is attacking Napoleon

with hands of a sensitive refinement in painting worthy of the most respectful study"

'Le Paon Bleu' [Cuckoo wrasse] Product:Canvas 'The mare's lamentationMarine zoological study showing a side view of the male Cuckoo wrasse (Labrus mixtus) with a detail of the head, intended to show the teeth of the fish. Plate 12 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed in ink, upper right 'Tab. XII' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772