Existing comment:
After Karl Bodmer,
Johann Hürlimann, engraver
Sih-Chida and Mahchsi-Karehde, Mandan Indians
1841
hand-colored aquatint
Fully a quarter of the watercolors Bodmer painted during the winter of 1833–34 were portraits of individual Mandan. Sih-Chida asked Bodmer to paint his portrait and then to teach him to use watercolor. Prince Maximilian described him as a close friend, who "came almost every evening, when his favourite employment was drawing, for which he had some talent." Bodmer ended up teaching several of the Mandan how to paint in watercolor.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.49.517.20 |