Diaphanization of a frog - Pelophylax ridibundus crossbred INRA (RIVAN92 strain) 

Biological preparation

The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.

You can see the bones through the skin!

Not a protected species

Butterflies flying under an antique Napoleon III victorian glass dome

Under a 19th-century glass globe

Composition - Label of the City of Paris - Fabriqué à Paris 2026

Only available for pick-up in store at Paris, as the butterflies under the glass dome are too fragile to be shipped

Octopus Tentacle Diaphanisation - Octopus vulgaris

Biological preparation

The purpose of diaphanisation is to make fabrics transparent. The fabrics are made transparent using a chemical process, and specific dyes are used.

The flesh is made transparent, and here the dyes will adhere to the skin that has not been removed.

All tentacles are different: illustrative photos

Entomological frame 

Species: Morpho Adonis butterfly from French Guiana

Frame with black background and white border

Entomological composition of beetles

27 specimens make up this picture

Black entomological box with gold fillet, hand-crafted by an bookbinder craftsman in Anjou

4 Globe fish under glass dome - Diodon Holocanthus fish

Diodontidae

Entomological box

Composition with South American butterflies

Morpho and heliconius

Vertebra of Giraffe

Giraffa camelopardalis

With its CITES license

Not for sale outside the European Union

You are buying 1 vertebra

Entomological box - 9x12cm

Species: Lyropteryx apollonia butterfly

Pick-up in store in Paris only

barracuda in it's glass reliquary box - Sphyraena barracuda

Scarabée - Beetle under mini globe

Species: Chrysochroa fulminans

Various other species available

Plastic mini globe

Entomological frame - Papilio Blumei

Species: Papilio Blumei butterfly from Indonesia also called Peacock swallowtail

Entomological box

Species: Charaxes smaragdalis Butterfly from Centrafrica

Entomological Box

Life cycle of Dorcus parallelipipedus beetle

12x15cm

Scorpion under glass jar

Species: Olivierus martensii

Flight of Charax antamboulou butterflies under glass dome