State before the Number
Two Kingdoms for a Horse like this
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Cheval sauvage on le laisse dans le desert jusque dans la troisieme ou quatrieme, apres on le dresse pour l’usage, n’a qu’un quelque sois deux de petits, on s’en sert 15. ou 20. ans. The Wild Horse is left in the Wild up to the 3rd and 4th Year, then trained for use; mostly foals only one, now and then 2. Foals; they serve for use 15. to 20. Years. In mountainous parts “full of courage and fire, leaping over an old trunk lying across the way”. Flying the curled mane, the head turned to the right. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inven. pinx. sculps. et exc. Aug. Vind., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.7 x 42.3 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 235. – Sheet 40 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 laterally 3.9, above & below 2.5-2.9 cm wide. – On the left in the foliage unobtrusive small wormhole. – In the wide white lower margin tear still extending to the platemark backed acid-freely. There on the back old trace of adhesive tape as well as some scribbles by a collector’s grandson.
The final chord of this – once more ! –
so incomparably beautiful Ridinger suite ,
grasped by the overwhelmed Brockes as follows , to which Thienemann shouts a triumphant “Bravo!”:
“ Does not the ground shake and shiver? What a trampling one hears here? what a snorting fills the air! a wild yet fine animal gallops along in full run … As this animal a masterpiece by the creative nature , so is the figure created here by few lines ,
also the master’s masterpiece .
Let this picture be the last one , I cannot follow you any further Ridinger ,
or else paint alone .”
And not least and by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time”. Here then in
early impression before the number as unknown to literature
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 1894 with Reich auf Biehla, while Coppenrath (1889) could not obtain this sujet at all.
Offer no. 15,492 / EUR 1300. / export price EUR 1235. (c. US$ 1682.) + shipping
– – – The same in wide-margined impression of shining-marvelous quality of the final state with the number “40.” above right as well as WANGEN watermark as so characteristic for the comtemp. impressions. – More …
Offer no. 15,428 / EUR 1100. / export price EUR 1045. (c. US$ 1423.) + 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)