This chapter analyses the image production practices of the Goettingen university anatomist and natural historian Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) and the Berlin artis Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) when they collaborated on Blumenbach’s Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte (1790). Blumenbach wanted Chodowiecki to produce family scences for each of his 5 “human varieties.” In analysing the correspondence between scholar and artist as well as a close reading of the digitized images themselves as well as the images which were used as modells for the scenes, the chapter is able to show that cultural stereotypes and racist assumptions informed the ways in which these “idealtypes” were created and what was depicted.