Its horned profile is displayed in large on the facade of the Rijksmuseum.
Amsterdam celebrates, with an exhibition as exciting as it is original, Clara, a female Indian rhinoceros, the first of her species to have been seen by millions of Europeans.
Gathered together, some 60 drawings, medals, sculptures, books, paintings, decorative objects and even a contemporary art installation retrace the unusual destiny of this animal captured as a baby on the banks of the Brahmaputra in 1738. Then who, after 221 days of the sea, tossed about on a boat of the East India Company between bales of cotton, silk, saltpetre and green tea, was exhibited from fairs to fairs, from carnivals to princely feasts.
An animal known only by snippets
Everywhere, the paid attraction (the equivalent of 3 euros the entrance) and cornaqué by a captain, who was counting on recovering from a shipwreck where he had lost most of his capital, received a triumph.
From the landing point, the village of Nieuwendam in the north of Amsterdam, to Versailles…
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