Jacques-Laurent Agasse
(1767 – 1849)
 

Jacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Laurent_Agasse

The Nubian Giraffe
1827
Oil on canvas
127.3 x 101.7 cm
Royal Collection, UK.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/404394/the-nubian-giraffe

 

This famous giraffe calf was sent by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt, to George IV; it arrived in England in August 1827 and was installed at George IV’s menagerie in Windsor but died two years later. In 1827 Agasse painted the entire entourage surrounding this exotic animal: two Egyptian cows who acted as wet-nurses; two Arab keepers and the menagerie owner, Edward Cross (1773-1854), who supervised the giraffe’s brief time in Windsor.