A New Identification and Source for Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt’s ‘Brazilian Coati’

Author(s)

  • Deniz Martinez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.23627

Abstract

A curious animal illustration by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt (1550-1632), held in the collections of the Rijksmuseum, is labelled as a coati from Brazil. However, this image bears little resemblance to a real coati, an endemic mammal of the Americas related to raccoons. The author presents evidence of the likely origin of De Boodt’s image, how it came to be misidentified and what other American mammal it was meant to illustrate.

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Author Biography

  • Deniz Martinez

    Deniz Martinez (M.S., M.A.) is a PhD student at the University of Delaware whose research focusses on intersections of natural history with art and visual culture history. Deniz also created and runs Art History Animalia, a website and social media profile dedicated to exploring animal iconography from ancient to modern times.

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Published

2025-06-17

Issue

Vol. 73 No. 2 (2025)

Section

Short notices

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Martinez, Deniz. 2025. “A New Identification and Source for Anselmus Boëtius De Boodt’s ‘Brazilian Coati’”. The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 73 (2): 148-57. https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.23627.
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