The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Plate
c. 800
Overall: 6.5 x 41.5 cm (2 9/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
Did You Know?
Apex predators like jaguars are natural power metaphors.Description
Its pose and jewelry suggest this flamboyantly painted figure may represent a human clad in the skin of a jaguar. Because the jaguar is the largest, most powerful predator in Mesoamerica, it was a natural metaphor for earthly and supernatural power alike.- ?-1972?(possibly Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1972, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)1972-1991James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1990-The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 256 www.jstor.org
- The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 79 (September, 1992.) cat. no. 91, p. 272, repr. fig. 91, p. 256.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1990.182