A New Identification and Source for Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt’s ‘Brazilian Coati’
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.
Authors
- D. E. Martínez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-0553)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Rijksmuseum Bulletin
- Published
- 2025-06-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.23627
- Primary Topic
- Historical and Literary Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00