“ Of Outstanding Beauty ”
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Dains blanc et la Biche ont ordinairement deux petis, deviennent grands â l’age de 4. et 5. ans. White Fallow Deer and the Hind; they usually have two Young Ones, reach their strength in the 4th and 5th Year. Setting in high flight over a fence hardened by broken trees. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 18. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.5 x 41.8 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 213; Helbing XXXIV (1900), 440 (“Of outstanding beauty with full margin”). – Sheet 18 of the STUDY OF THE WILD ANIMALS with the subtext of the Hamburg pope of poets, jurist & senator, foremost, however, friend of Ridinger’s, Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747), in German. – Margins 3-5 cm wide. – The utterly smoothed centerfold reinforced on the back.
“ In the flight of the quick game , my look flies with them … and sees the planks fall , which , the stag breaks through and turns over , together with the light and quick doe , driven by severe dread . Barely I can see the wonders … which in this fine drawing , are not and yet painted … But so much I remember , that , impossible on earth ,
an animal’s quick run , could be shown more alike .
I further recollect … because the art shows us nature , nature the Creator .”
In short, not by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time”. Here then
of marvelous-shining quality & therefore rarity ,
for even in exemplary old Ridinger collections the old impressions of particularly this so fine large-sized main set frequently figure as closely trimmed, damaged, and fully mounted. So including present one in the Silesian collection 1885 at Boerner & 1894 with Reich auf Biehla, while Coppenrath (1889) could not obtain it at all. Otherwise, however, assenting to Helbing, one of the
terrifically finest Ridingeriana
of a painterly delicacy widening the heart .
Offer no. 15,411 / EUR 1300. / export price EUR 1235. (c. US$ 1682.) + shipping
– – – The same. Margins above & below 2.6-3.3, laterally 4 cm wide. – Narrow trace of glue in the white margin close to the lower left corner. – Of likewise shining-marvelous quality and therefore rarity.
Offer no. 15,587 / EUR 1300. / export price EUR 1235. (c. US$ 1682.) + shipping
„ Danke für den wunderbaren (Ridinger-)Scan … der meine Argumentation zur Verwechslung in der Staffierung der Porzellane dokumentarisch bestens belegt. Darf ich um Ihre Zustimmung bitten, ihn in meiner Arbeit zeigen zu dürfen? “
(Herr J. R., 7. Juni 2004)