Pierre Antoine Delalande (27 March 1787 – 27 June 1823) was a French naturalist, taxidermist, explorer and painter.
Life
Pierre Antoine Delalande was the son of a taxidermist in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He was employed at the museum from a young age, where he became an assistant of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. He took painting classes from the Flemish animal painter Jean-Baptiste Berré, who was an official painter at the Jardin des Plantes and exhibited landscapes and animal paintings in the Salons of Paris.