Lion Attacking a Dromedary

Lion Attacking a Dromedary
French: Lion Attaquant un Dromadaire
The restored Lion Attacking a Dromedary in 2018
Artist	Édouard Verreaux
Medium	Taxidermy
Movement	Orientalism
Location	Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Lion Attacking a Dromedary^{[note 1]} is an orientalist diorama by French taxidermist Édouard Verreaux in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It depicts a fictional scene of a man on a dromedary struggling to fend off an attack by a Barbary lion.

The diorama was created for the Paris Exposition of 1867 and subsequently shown at the American Museum of Natural History, Centennial Exposition, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Since the 1890s, Lion Attacking a Dromedary has been criticized for its sensationalism and lack of accuracy. The male figure, referred to as an Arab by Verreaux, is a fictional pastiche of five North African cultures. The diorama is considered to be Verreaux's masterpiece.

Lion Attacking a Dromedary was purchased by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1898. As part of a 2017 restoration, the museum found human remains in the diorama. In 2020, the diorama was removed from view in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the lack of accuracy. Later that year it was returned to public view with additional context. Three years later, the exhibit was permanently removed from public view due to a newly enacted human-remains policy.
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