“ … and have such sharp arms on them ”
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Sangliers de cinq ans portent les defenses d’un doigt de longueur et de plus qui sont fort trenchantes. Boars of Five Years carry their tusks one Finger long and more which are very sharp. Three of them in splendid forest lair, the boar in the center rubbing his rind at a mighty double trunk. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 15 / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inven. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin & below. 34.3 x 42.4 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 210. – Sheet 15 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. – Reverse detail drawing of the boar from 1735 in Hamburg Kunsthalle. – Margins on three sides 3.5-4, above 2.3 cm wide. In the left margin of the subject slight trace of box pleat, torn and backed below up to the last line of text. Verso there trace of a removed adhesive tape as well as scribbles by a collector’s grandson. A little backed tear also in the white upper margin. At the right lower edge faint fold outside of the text field.
“ Can one dare approaching without danger the wild boars , which appear quite alive here and have such sharp arms on them? … Pleasure and fear seems to mate in the thick bush … ”
PAINTERLY-BEAUTIFUL SHEET
– not by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time” – of this wanted , by Ridinger, however, clearly neglected species compared with his red deer in
WIDE-MARGINED MARVELOUS IMPRESSION
and in such quality rare since old, 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, 1889 with Coppenrath, 1894 with Reich auf Biehla.
Offer no. 15,488 / EUR 1050. / export price EUR 998. (c. US$ 1359.) + shipping
„ … zugleich bedanke ich mich für alles, was Sie im alten Jahr für mich getan haben. Mit vielen Grüßen Ihr … “
(Herr W. W., 20. Dezember 2008)