Pehriska-Ruhpa, A Minatarre or Big-bellied Indian
Artist
Karl Bodmer
(Swiss, 1809 - 1893)
Engraver
Johann Hürlimann
(1793 - 1850)
Date1841
Mediumaquatint and engraving on paper, hand-colored
Dimensions24 x 17 1/2 inches (61 x 44.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1994
Object number91.121.13
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionTableau 17Label TextGerman Prince Maximilian Wied-Neuwied hired Karl Bodmer, a Swiss artist, to accompany him on an expedition to North America. Bodmer made sketches of the landscapes and the Indians they saw on their journey up the Missouri River in a trip taken between 1832 and 1834. After they returned to Europe, Bodmer prepared final drawings and supervised the engravers who illustrated Maximilian's written account of the trip. This engraving was one of two different portraits Bodmer made of the warrior Pehriska-Ruhpa, a Minatarre Indian. In this image Bodmer depicted Pehriska-Ruhpa wearing a war shirt and grizzly bear claw necklace and with an elaborately decorated buffalo robe over his shoulder.
ProvenancePurchased February 1970 through (The Old Print Shop, New York, New York) by Donald S. Graham, Denver, Colorado; purchased November 28, 1994 through (Anderson O'Brien Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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