Beautiful Big Bugs…
Paris, France
French painter Bernard Durin (1940-1988) became smitten with beetles in the summer of 1972 as he tramped the countryside in Provence. His artist’s eye aroused by the galaxies of insect life, he eventually found his necessary models at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, which gave him access to its trove of preserved insects… (read more and see more images here).