Rascar Capac statuette from the Tintin's Imaginary Museum

Rascar Capac from the Imaginary Museum: the Inca mummy in resin

Rascar Capac is the visually strongest character in The Seven Crystal Balls: this Inca mummy with arms crossed on his chest, wrapped in his wrappings, who appears in the nightmares of poisoned explorers. Hergé drew it with a formidable economy of means: no expressive face, no gesture of action, just the hieratic posture of standing death.

The hand-painted resin restores the strips in their winding, the ocher-brown hue of the old fabrics, the detail of the pre-Columbian ornaments that Hergé had documented in the Belgian collections. The crossed-arm posture is the most difficult to balance in volume: Tintinimaginatio treated the arms as elements assembled separately.

The figure of the fantastic in the Tintin albums

Rascar Capac belongs to the period of albums where Hergé pushed the supernatural register furthest. Its presence in a collection alongside a Haddock and a Castafiore says that the collector read the albums with an attention that goes beyond the central characters.

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