Thienemann’s
“Loveliest Sheet in the Whole Set ”
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Dains mouchetés. Speckled Fallow Deer. “A splendid group (of 6) fallow deer in unsurpassably fine (oak) forest.” Two stags, one resting, the other grazing, three deer, resting, standing & going, and a pert little calf. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 17. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.6 x 42 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 212. – Sheet 17 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 2.5-4 cm wide. – In the center of the 3 cm white lower margin tear up to the platemark backed acid-freely with old trace of adhesive tape shining through.
“ No , one cannot admire enough
how vivid and appealing everything is represented here !”
(Thienemann). And Brockes, concluding:
“ … and his yet much more delicate meat, is savored with greater pleasure. As we then feast, together with the palate, the eye, so don’t forget to thank Him , whom we owe it to. ”
PAINTERLY-FINE SHEET
– not by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time” –
IN SHINING MARVELOUS IMPRESSION
of ultimate beauty as 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 often figure only closely trimmed, damaged, and fully mounted.
Offer no. 15,498 / EUR 1100. / export price EUR 1045. (c. US$ 1423.) + shipping
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