Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Un grand vieux cerf en rut, qui s’est dong a leau outré, pour se refraichir. A Strong Rutting Stag of 18 points, which to cool from the heat lies in a spring or wallow. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 9. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. Elias Ridinger inv. pinxit Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.6 x 43 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 204. – Sheet 9 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. – With WANGEN watermark as so characteristic for contemp. impressions. – The utterly smoothed centerfold reinforced on the back. – Margins 3-4 cm wide.
“ How wild is this forest ! look how light and shadow here …
mate in wild grace ! … ”
THEMATICALLY AS PAINTERLY-FINE SHEET
– not by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time” –
of shining-marvelous 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 & at least without platemark also 1889 with Coppenrath, while Reich auf Biehla (1894) could obtain it only as new impression of about 1850.
Offer no. 15,420 / EUR 1100. / export price EUR 1045. (c. US$ 1423.) + shipping
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