“ In Animal Painting also distinguished themselves …”
Thoman(n) von Hagelstein, Tobias Heinrich (1700 Augsburg 1764). Ibex Hunt with Pike and Rifle. In various stages high over the valley. In front left two successful hunters, one of them strapping on the climbing-irons. On a slope behind three huntsmen following a buck while on the opposite height one goes off a ledge. On a plateau in the middle distance a group of hunters occupied with gutting. Mezzotint printed in blue. 36.8 x 48.4 cm.
Blüchel, Die Jagd, I, 149 as color illustration varyingly shortened at the edges (this copy). – Not in Schwerdt. – Watermark Great Crown with Coat of Arms. – Sheet G.3. of a set. – Only partly legible Latin distich + German quatrain:
The ibex , which freshly the ...
also the hunter follows up to the highest ...
He drives him so forth over the ...
And does not rest till only the folks' leap fails .
Margins on two sides 1-2 cm wide, at the sides trimmed to the edge of the image, but added. Throughout smoothed age-creasing, in the subtext left small tear with trace of scraping, some pin-like holes. Generally thus time-marked, but most largely eliminated by the passepartout. The impression itself fine, the sheet as such as its scenery, too,
rare-instructive
for a detail of cultural-historical hunting practice :
“ The huntsmen wield long pikes with sickle-shaped blades mounted below of the top to cut through from below the ankle-sinews of the hind legs of the game fleeing into the rock ”
(Blüchel).
And the younger Thomann himself, so Welisch, (Contributions to the History of the Augsburg Painters in the 18th Century), 1901, p. 93 further,
“ highly rated by Ridinger , too ”.
Offer no. 28,143 / EUR 476. / export price EUR 452. (c. US$ 615.) + shipping
„ … sowie herzlichen Dank für Ihre Ausführungen zur Kulturgeschichte / Ihr … “
(Herr H.-J. W., 7. Januar 2010)