Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). How the stag is forced through the shallow water by par force hounds. / How the boars are hounded in the open on the ball and forced with a full chase of hounds. Set of 2 sheet. Etchings with engraving. Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger inv. del. sc. et exc. A(ug). V(ind)., otherwise in German as above. 26-26.1 x 34.3-34.4 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 65-66; Weigel XXVIII (1857), Ridinger, 5 (complete in later impressions only); Nagler 39; Ridinger Collection at Boerner XXXIX, 1784 (“Without platemark, mounted, and slightly spotted.

Extremely  rare ”, 1885 ;

later probably separated, compare the copy Th. 65 with Helbing); Coppenrath Collection II, 1454 (“Very rare old impressions”, 1889); Reich auf Biehla Collection 12 (“Very fine impressions, with wide margins. Extremely rare”, 1894); Helbing XXXIV, 157 (only Th. 65, moreover trimmed to platemark and mounted, probably from the 1885 copy above; “Rare”, 1900); Schwerdt III (1928), 135. – Not in the Schoeller Collection (1921) and catalogues Kielce (1997) + Darmstadt (1999).

– these likewise available here! – as here the game is not yet brought to bay, rather still in full flight.

In regard of it creation the suite could be connected with the drawn boar hunt Schwerdt III, 217, d (L’Art Ancien 14, 41 with ills.) of 1757 of similar, however upright format with closely related “mighty old tree in the middle distance” which is passed by the chase. In the engraving here the thick forest of the drawing opens to a hilly clear valley landscape with lateral property, here ten hounds compared with just seven. The drawing additionally without the hunters of which in the engraving three on horseback surge into the picture laterally left. The dynamics of both sheets finds its appraisal in Schwerdt’s words on the drawing:

“ … very  attractive … full  of  swift  movement .”

With 34 x 47.3 cm sheet size even more wide-margined than Schwerdt’s copy with 34.5 x 43.5 cm. – Sheet 1 with somewhat thin paper spot in the white platemark laterally lower right. In the right wide white paper margin small corner damage above and tiny tear below. Similar the like on the left side of sheet 2.
Offer no. 14,662 / EUR  1635. / Export price EUR  1553. (c. US$ 2507.) + shipping

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