Musée Fragonard d'Alfort
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The Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, often simply the Musée Fragonard, is a museum of anatomical oddities located within the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, in M
Écorché of a horse and his rider by anatomist Honoré Fragonard, two of the cadavers on display at the museum
Honoré Fragonard
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Honoré Fragonard was a French anatomist, now remembered primarily for his remarkable collection of écorchés in the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort.
Musée Fragonard d'Alfort
…calf, a 10-legged sheep, and a colt with one huge eye. The museum's most astonishing items are the famous "écorchés" (flayed figures) prepared by Honoré Fragonard, the school's first professor of anatomy, appointed in 1766 and in 1771 dismissed from the school as a madman. His speciality was the preparation and…
Horseman of the Apocalypse, an écorché of a horse and his rider, made between 1766 and 1771 by Honoré Fragonard.