Ottin was responsible for the assembly in 1834 of the vast surtout de table of hunting vignettes, commissioned for the Tuileries Garden by Louis-Philippe's heir, Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, and entrusted to the supervision of Claude-Aimé Chenavard, who gave much of the sculptural work to Antoine-Louis Barye, the celebrated animalier.
Caldwell Fisher, primarily an animalier, began the serious study of sculpture with Denver sculptor Robert Garrison at the Beaux-Arts Atelier in Denver, before moving on to New York City and Paris to study with Alexander Archipenko, Jose de Creeft and Aristide Maillol.
The Jardin Animalier de Monaco are located on the Esplanade Rainer III, in Monaco's Fontvieille ward, on the southern side of the Rock of Monaco.