“ Listen how he breathes ,
see how he roots … ”
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Sangliers de six ou sept ans sont des Sa(n)gliers achevés, on con(n)oit leur gra(n)deur aux arbres quit sont prés d’un souil, on voit leurs age a ses defe(n)ses qui sont tous emoussées et epais. Boars of 6. to 7. and more Years one calls Main Boars their size one knows by the trees at which the marsh thistle stands, yet their age at the defense which is quite blunt and thick. Wild Boar in splendidly thick forest wallow. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 16 / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. Elias Ridinger inv. pinxit sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34 x 42 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 211. – Sheet 16 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 3.2-5.7, above & below 1.5-4.2 cm wide. – In the accessories left unobtrusive small, in the white margin short wormhole. – In the left margin of the subject only little disturbing smoothed box pleat backed in the wide white margin below. There on the back also old trace of adhesive tape as well as scribbles by a collector’s grandson.
“ … there he lies in the wallow, to cool his dry thirst, below the bush in the wet reed. Listen how he breathes, see how he roots, look how tousled his bristles, how so long the defenses are! … A few intelligent lines (of the master) show, of the huge animal, even the inner passion … ”
AS DYNAMIC AS 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
MARVELOUS IMPRESSION
OF SPLENDIDLY SHINING CHIAROSCURO
and in such quality rare of 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. 15,493 / EUR 1050. / export price EUR 998. (c. US$ 1359.) + shipping
“ Thanks for shipping the print. It has arrived here in excellent shape. Happy holidays ”
(Mr. H. A. P., December 12, 2001)