When Albrecht Dürer felt the bite of melancholy he went in search of a stranded whale in Zeeland (Netherlands). But he didn't get to see her. The whale was returned to the sea before Dürer appeared and then he was not able, or did not want, to paint the whale by hearsay, as they say he did when he heard the story of the Indian rhinoceros whose figure has remained engraved for the remains in sentimental memory. of art history.