Beauchene skull, mounted

Beauchene skull, mounted

Osteological Preparations

Skull

Dentition

Vasseur

Cranial Sutures

human remains

Skull separated on suture lines, mounted with brass works on circular wooden base. Large floral metal flange on base.

Pierre Nicolas Vasseur (1814-1885)

19th century, mid

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Norr, J.C. "Medical Museums and Schools, with Remarks on the Radical Cure of Hernia." The New York Medical Press 3 (1860): 37-41.

Henocque, A. "Exposition Universelle: Preparations Anatomiques." Gazette Hebdomadaire de Medecine et de Chirurgie 39 (1867): 609-610.

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osteological preparation, human

physical object

WAM TEMP00431

This beauchene skull, likely from a male, was prepared and sold by anatomy dealer Pierre Nicolas Vasseur (1814-1885) of Paris in the mid 19th-century. The label inscription only naming Vasseur indicates that this display was most created in the 1850s-1860s before initial partnership with Pierre Jean Martin Gustave Trammond (1845-1905) was documented.

Many affluent American physicians would travel to Paris to receive elite medical training. The original purchaser of this Beauchene skull is unknown, but it was a popular contemporary educational model.

52 cm H x 36 Dia cm