1.

Auguste André Lançon (St. Claude, Jura, 1836 – Paris 1887). Le Sanglier. Boar sitting in front of rocks. Wood engraving printed with toneplate by Ch. Rod. C. 1870. Inscribed: CH. ROD. / A. Lancon. 12½ × 8⅝ in (31.7 × 22 cm).

Thieme-Becker XXII, 285 f. – “Under the influence of Barye and Delacroix Lançon devoted himself chiefly to the depiction of predacious animals”. – Sovereign sujet.

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2.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). How the Wild Boar is hunted and dealt the coup de grâce. – Qua Ratione Aper exagitatus tandem Prosternatur. Seized by the hounds on all sides, but also surrounded by several undone, the tusker is at bay by the foot of a mighty oak and receives the coup de grâce with the boar spear from the lord of the hunt. On the left several hunters, holding the horse and further hounds, coming from the right two hunters and grooms each, two of which with boar spears, too. Etching with engraving. Inscribed: Johann Elias Ridinger inven. fecit et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German & Latin as above. 20⅞ × 29¼ in (53 × 74.2 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 68; Catalog Augsburg 1967, no. 68 & cover ill. (detail); Schwerdt III, 135 (“of the largest and most artistic plates engraved by Ridinger himself”). – Not in the Ridinger catalogs Kielce (1997) & Kranichstein (1999). – With imperial privilege note.

“ The House of Arenberg always distinguished itself by … strict piety, great lenience towards the subjects, and a liberal patronization of the arts. The palace at Brussels holds

one of the most important collections of paintings and art in Europe ”

(Leopold von Eltester, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie I [1875], p. 515).

In the eldest line dating back to the 12^th century with Arenberg (Aremberg) in the district Adenau/Ahr as ancestral seat, substantial possessions on the Lower Rhine, in Westphalia and the Habsburg Netherlands and here in particular the part of today’s Belgium were acquired chiefly by marriage and inheritance with a consequential shift of interests.

On heavy laid paper supposedly watermarked Wangen and secondary mark FAvI (?). – Three sides with 8-15 mm wide white paper margin in addition to the platemark of c. 1 cm. Only on the left trimmed to the platemark with partially still fine paper margin. The left lower corner and right white margin a little crease-marked. Besides in the latter and in the middle of the caption one professionally done tear each. A former centerfold utterly smoothed out and perceptible as a faint shadow on the back only. However, in respect of the faults of preservation to be stated almost always with these oversizes, these downright minimal age marks are entirely subordinate to the excellent printing quality with its marvelous chiaroscuro as adequate to what made

this inexpressibly fine sheet

of this ultimate representation of a hunting-historical zenith so unrivaled and unrepeated:

“ The worthy pendant to the one before , equally rich and well-done. ”

Of which therefore holds true what Thienemann already stated on the deer sheet:

“ … how artfully executed ! …

Most strikingly the various states of the many hounds …

Each part of this magnificent , wild group executed excellently ,

so that one cannot admire this masterpiece enough. ”

However, as dramatic scene and landscape – for Welisch (1904) Ridinger was indisputably “the most important Augsburg landscapist of this period, albeit he is mainly known as animal painter” –

as rarely traceable contemporary impressions

of this splendid composition, too, which together with the Par Force Hunt of the Stag – Th. 67 – forms the group of the Imperials. Ranking among Ridinger’s largest sheets, the plates of which were, contrary to Thienemann’s presumption (1856), not lost, but are available here, too.

Already 1857 Weigel could provide only late impressions of the Imperials within his immense inventory partly based on the Ridinger estate and in the Coppenrath Collection sold at auction 1889 they were missing just as in the Fine Collection of Drawings and Engravings of Joh. El. Ridinger’s from the Estate of a Known Collector sold at Wawra’s in Vienna 1890 in 421 partly many-leafed lots. Finally, the ones Helbing offered 1900 were slightly repaired.

And still 250 years later even but one sheet of these Imperials represents

A RIDINGER ABSOLUTUM , A SUN AMONGST HER PLANETS .

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3.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). In the Year 1615. the 3^rd xbris. (December) Sir William of Maxelheim Baron of Waldeck Have captured this Main Boar in the forest Dürenpüchs at the forest ground and it still can be seen in this illustration with its rare tusks at Norrendorff Palace. In full run to the left. Etching with engraving. Inscribed: 23 (with cancelled 3!) / J. El. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. 1742., otherwise in German as above. 14¾ × 11½ in (37.3 × 29.3 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 265; Weigel (1857) 20 D (“New impressions”). – Sheet 23 of the 101-sheet set of the Most Wondrous Deer and other Peculiar Animals, here intended as sheet 2 of the self-contained set Other Wondrous Animals (Niemeyer II.2) of the edition jointly published by Engelbrecht and Herzberg about 1824/25 with the six boars as the beginning.

On heavy Grand Reserve Thurneisen wove paper with the untouched Thurneisen watermark and therefore cutting of the secondary mark G. R. of the Thurneisen mills flourishing from 1558 until 1925 at Basel (until 1886), Kandern (1819-1852), and Maulburg (1836-1925). – Margins top/bottom 4.6-5.3, laterally only 2.1-2.3 cm wide. – At the corners quite slight traces of former mounting to supporting paper, otherwise fine.

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4.

Antonio Tempesta (Florence 1555 – Rome 1630). Battue of Boars, Deer, Hares, and Foxes. Mounted and on foot, armed with boar spear & short sword, the chain of beaters drives the game through a ditch, expected on its other side by a no lesser dense phalanx of hunters with javelins. Etching for Pieter Goos (Amsterdam 1616 – 1675) in Amsterdam. C. 1627. 3⅝ × 5¾ in (9.3 × 14.7 cm).

Schwerdt II, 253. – On fine, wide-margined laid paper with typographic watermark (further sheets of the set available here partly with watermark Amsterdam Arms flanked by Lions) in the copy of the collection “EK” not identified by Lugt with its small black round monogram stamp on the back (ligated, Lugt 3549, drawings and prints of the 17^th to 19^th centuries).

Highly instructive animated sheet

from the first part of the four-part set of the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium pugnæ Bestiariorum et mutuæ Bestianrum delineatæ ab Antonio Tempesta, consisting of 40 plates in total. The title plate aside, with Schwerdt only each the first plate of the following three parts bears the inscription “A. Tempest inventor / P. Goos excudebat”. Nevertheless the wide white lower platemark with just the number “2” on the right suggests

early impressions before the letter

as known, too, for the set Aucupationis Multifariæ Effegies Artificiosissimé published 1639 by Claes Jansz. Visscher de Jonghe (1586 Amsterdam 1652) and there expressly qualified by Schwerdt as “proof impressions”.

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5.

Johann Elias Ridinger (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 with 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. 13½ × 16¾ in (34.3 × 42.4 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 210. – Sheet 15 of the Contemplation of the Wild Animals with the caption of the Hamburg pope of poets, jurist & senator, yet foremost friend of Ridinger’s, Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747), in German:

“ 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. – 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. – Reverse detail drawing of the boar from 1735 in Hamburg Kunsthalle.

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6.

Georg Philipp Rugendas II (1701 Augsburg 1774). Good Hunting. Young hunter with his two hounds, propped over boar & hare laid down at the foot of a tree growing from a boulder. Sketched hilly landscape background with further tree. Pen & brush drawing in brown-black and grey resp. over occasional pencil, grey wash. Inscribed with the pen lower left below the fine border, both in brown ink: G. P. Rug. Junior. invenit A1736. 9⅞ × 7⅜ in (252 × 188 mm).

On strong Jean Villedary laid paper (“IV ILLEDARY”), the paper mill prospering for 150 years in Angoulême (acc. to Churchill, 1935, p. 21 from 1668 to 1758) and then in resumption or as a branch at Hattem/Netherlands, “sometimes in conjunction with the names of Dutch paper-makers” (Emma Ruffle) where his IV/I V for instance appears as countermark to the ones of C & I HONIG (about 1724/26-1902), but generally also abused as pirated mark like others standing for first qualities, too. In Augsburg “IV” papers were estimated by both Rugendas – as then just here, too – and Ridinger.

The in every detail typical signature probably somewhat paled, on the back below not shining through into the subject the diagonally set S-sequence of a child’s printing set with touch of an attempt of cure, otherwise perfectly fresh and mounted at the edges onto a cutout. – Under acid-free passepartout with 23.5-carat gilt stamped artist’s name and dates.

as representative for the best of his drawings. “His strength lies in the careful, pictorial execution”, so Gode Krämer in the 1998 Augsburg Rugendas catalog (p. 46/I) on occasion of other works of the younger Georg Philipp. Usually working after his father’s designs and those of third parties, especially also after Johann Heinrich Roos, present work already excels just thematically. Motifs with the hunter and his hunting bag are generally rare. Here then as the sole content of the subject.

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7.

Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hesse, 1742 – Cassel 1808). A Wild Boar. Dead to the right with ground hatching only. Drawn from nature. Etching in vernis mou. 6 × 8¾ in (15.2 × 22.2 cm).

Sheet 28 of the 1827 Tischbein set of the “Fair Game” Nagler 44 – Lindner 11.2083.01; Schwerdt III, 173 – as a compilation mounted in points of throughout old till earlier impressions. – Mostly trimmed to platemark. Pinhead-small hole below the forelegs in the white field. – From the collection of the legendary railroad king DR. STROUSBERG, Berlin. – Fine sheet.

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8.

Joseph Georg Wintter (1751 Munich 1789). Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake. Standing below forest tree. Etching. 1784? 3⅞ × 5⅞ in (9.9 × 14.8 cm).

Niemeyer 57. – Cannot be related in Nagler if not belonging to his omnibus number 21. By composition yet related to the larger “Wild Boar by the Tree” (Niemeyer 28; Nagler 8, 3) from 1784. So then also inscribed in pencil by a previous owner “J. G. Wintter 1784 sc.”. By other old hand besides “Cat. No. 1299”.

Already not present anymore in the Augsburg omnibus edition Schwerdt III, 190, a ( “Rare”, 1928 ) of 1821 the earliest. In such a manner then

on wide-margined light laid paper with torso of a typographic/figurative watermark. – In the upper right white plate field and paper margin resp. four quite faint brown spots, otherwise impeccable.

Ridinger’s The Bear frightened of 1738 (Th. 432) should have stood sponsor to this graphically quite delicate sheet, but

what an “easiness of being” here !

And Nagler, summarizing, “his etchings are excellent and are in the treatment between those by Hollar and Riedinger”.

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9.

August Schleich (1814 Munich 1865). Troop of Boars. Group of four on clearing in the mountain forest with the capital boar in important dominance in the center to the left where a sow rests and a further one stands behind it while on the right a heavy beast runs downwards. Watercolor in especially richly differenciated grey and brown tones with black lights on grey tone paper. Inscribed lower left: A. Schleich (18)49. 8⅝ × 11⅞ in (22 × 30.3 cm).

Laid by old on braided mounting carton with “A. Schleich” in the upper center and on this fixed above completey with the result of a weak waving and below right per point.

Superb , colorfresh sheet ,

appropriately claiming what Nagler noted contemporarily in respect of the 1840/41 set of lithographs “Studies of Game Animals”:

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10.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This Main Boar had at the 2. fore and right hind legs the dewclaws in the presented manner, therefore it traced like a wild sow with shoats, and after frequently considered as such, In the Year 1731. has been shot in the Allgau at Oberndorf. Etching with engraving. Inscribed: 1. (sic!) / J. El. Ridinger ad vivum del. sculp. et excud. 1742., otherwise in German as above. 14¾ × 11½ in (37.4 × 29.3 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 268; Weigel (1857) 20 D (“New impressions”). – Sheet 26 of the 101-sheet set of the Most Wondrous Deer and other Peculiar Animals, here after erasure of the original numbering apparently renumbered in the plate, else in writing, as sheet 1 of the self-contained set Other Wondrous Animals (Niemeyer II.2) of the edition jointly published by Engelbrecht and Herzberg about 1824/25 with the six boars as the beginning.

The caption inked a little slightly, otherwise splendid impression on heavy wove paper watermarked (Thurn)eisen G(rand). R(eserve). of the Thurneisen mills flourishing from 1558 until 1925 at Basel (until 1886), Kandern (1819-1852), and Maulburg (1836-1925). – Bottom/top margins 4.7-5 and laterally only 2.2 cm wide. – Top right corner with slight trace of former mounting to supporting sheet, otherwise perfect.

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11.

Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hesse, 1742 – Cassel 1808). A Leaping Wild Boar. To the right, with ground hatching only. Etching with aquatint. 5½ × 8 in (14.1 × 20.2 cm).

Sheet 23 of the 1827 Tischbein set of the “Fair Game” Nagler 44 – Lindner 11.2083.01; Schwerdt III, 173 – as a compilation mounted in points of throughout old till earlier impressions. – Trimmed on platemark. – From the collection of the legendary railroad king DR. STROUSBERG, Berlin.

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12.

Alphonse de Neuville (St. Omer 1836 – 1885, pupil of i. a. Delacroix). Chasse au Sanglier. Wild boar hunted with hounds with just a small lead of his pursuers. Wood engraving printed with tone plate by Jules Huyot (Toulouse 1841 – Eaubonne 1921). C. 1870. 8⅝ × 12⅜ in (21.8 × 31.3 cm). – Very fine sujet.

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13.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This Snub=Eared Main Boar with cropped Tail which on the left side had the large Tusk broken off and on the right the Tusks grown crosswise His Princely Highness the ruling Sire Landgrave Louis (VIII) of Hesse-Darmstadt has cropped the ears with serene hand himself already 12. years ago and in the 1749^th year January 18 wounded in the Bessungen Forest (Roßdorf, south of Darmstadt) and ditto 30^th even shot in the All Saints Forest (Langen/Hesse, north of D.). Etching with engraving. Inscribed: 5. (sic!) / J. E. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. A. V. 1753., otherwise in German as above. 13⅝ × 9¾ in (34.5 × 24.9 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 300; Ridinger Catalog Darmstadt, 1999, VI.3 with ill.; Siebert-Weitz, Ridinger, 1999, pp. 28 f. with ill.; Weigel (1857) 20 D (“New impressions”). – Top-rounded sheet 58 of the 101-sheet set of the Most Wondrous Deer and other Peculiar Animals, here after erasure of the original numbering apparently renumbered in the plate, else in writing, as sheet 5 of the self-contained set Other Wondrous Animals (Niemeyer II.2) of the edition jointly published by Engelbrecht and Herzberg about 1824/25 with the six boars as the beginning.

“ Contrary to Louis VIII’s most other hunting successes published by Ridinger no further evidence has been preserved to this sheet of the series in the Kranichstein collection ” (Morét).

Splendid impression on heavy wove paper watermarked (Thurn)eisen G(rand). R(eserve). of the Thurneisen mills flourishing from 1558 until 1925 at Basel (until 1886), Kandern (1819-1852), and Maulburg (1836-1925). – Margins of present one laterally 4.2-4.7, below/top 6.2-6.7 cm wide. – At the corners quite slight traces of former mounting to supporting paper, otherwise fine.

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14.

Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hesse, 1742 – Cassel 1808). A Wild Boar. Dead lying to the left on a mountain clearing with brushwood. Drawn from nature. Etching. 6⅛ × 8⅛ in (15.7 × 20.6 cm).

Sheet 29 of the 1827 Tischbein set of the “Fair Game” Nagler 44 – Lindner 11.2083.01; Schwerdt III, 173 – as a compilation mounted in points of throughout old till earlier impressions. – Mostly trimmed to platemark. Isolated minimal tiny fox spots. – From the collection of the legendary railroad king DR. STROUSBERG, Berlin. – Fine sheet, rich in light contrast.

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15.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Une Laie avec ses Marcassins dans son bouge. A Wild Sow with her Young Ones or Shoats in the Lair. Of the latter there are seven. On small clearing amidst mighty trunks leafy to the ground. Etching with engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 13 / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. Elias Ridinger inven. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 13½ × 16¾ in (34.4 × 42.6 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 208. – Sheet 13 of the Contemplation of the Wild Animals with the caption of the Hamburg pope of poets, jurist & senator, yet foremost friend of Ridinger’s, Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747), in German:

“ Can one indeed see a grunting? … that both of this is possible this sheet can show to us. Is not this wild sow almost alive? covers she not so naturally and so carefully her breed, which half wild and half droll? … ”

With WANGEN watermark as so characteristic for contemp. impressions. – The utterly smoothed centerfold reinforced on the back. The partial faint margin foxing practically perceptible at all in the white upper margin only.

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16.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Hunting Scenes. Set of 4 sheet. Mezzotints by or for Johann Andreas Pfeffel I or II (Bischoffingen/Altbreisach 1674 – Augsburg 1748 and 1715 Augsburg 1768 resp.). Inscribed: Ioh(ann)(.) Elias(.) Ridinger pinx(it). / I. A. Pfeffel exc(ud[it])(.) Aug. Vind., otherwise in Latin-French-German quatrains. 19⅝-19⅞ × 28¾-29 in (49.9-50.5 × 73.1-73.8 cm).

Thienemann 1127-30 (“Fine work”, 1856). – Not in Schwarz (Katalog einer Ridinger-Sammlung [Ritter von Gutmann Collection], 2 vols., 1910; vol. II with the “engravings and mezzotint[s] unbeknown to Thienemann and Stillfried”) and missing then also in the collection and sales catalogs so indispensable for Ridinger.

Quite uniform even deep velvety qualities

as with regard to the delicate mezzotint manner especially worth emphasizing and generally just for technical reasons frequently so unobtainable for the collector. Here besides with sheet sizes of c. 20⅝-21 × 30-30¼ in with 7-20 mm white paper margin around and note “Set (of) 4” along with cipher in pencil on the back of all four sheets and additionally on the boar sheet “Very Fine”.

In the white margin around several small tears, mostly professionally done of old, of which but a few still extend barely perceivably into the subject or caption. Likewise not perceivable in the subject a certain crumpiness on the back, probably originating already from printing, and a larger water stain in the lateral part of the roe sheet. In such a way, however,

By image dimensions still surpassing in width by about 2 cm the imperial stag-boar pendants Th. 67/68 etched by Ridinger himself and in height only 1 cm behind, present four sheets rank among the largest in the œuvre.

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17.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). In the Year 1735. His High Princely Serenity Charles Alexander Duke of Württemberg has shot this Extra Main Boar which had the upper tusks grown out on both sides and one inch deep into the snout in a hunt near Stuttgard. Etching with engraving. 1740/41 the latest. Inscribed: 3. (sic!) Joh. El. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. A.V., otherwise in German as above. 14⅞ × 11¾ in (37.8 × 29.8 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 254; Weigel (1857) 20 D (“New impressions”). – Sheet 12 of the 101-sheet set of the Most Wondrous Deer and other Peculiar Animals, here after erasure of the original numbering apparently renumbered in the plate, else in writing, as sheet 3 of the self-contained set Other Wondrous Animals (Niemeyer II.2) of the edition jointly published by Engelbrecht and Herzberg about 1824/25 with the six boars as the beginning.

On wove paper watermarked Thurneisen of the Thurneisen mills flourishing from 1558 until 1925 at Basel (until 1886), Kandern (1819-1852), and Maulburg (1836-1925). – Margins top/bottom 4.5-5, laterally 2 cm wide.

As a Ridingeriana Rarity of degree previously traded here into private collection the representation of above deformity Ridinger had received from the court of Duke Charles Alexander of Württemberg, which in a Heidelberg sale in 1976 had still been offered and sold as original Ridinger drawing styled as “by own hand”, yet supposedly was furnished by his hand merely with one additional detail.

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18.

Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hesse, 1742 – Cassel 1808). A wild Boar, pursued by a hound. With fine landscape scenery. Etching with a little aquatint. 3⅝ × 6¾ in (9.1 × 17.3 cm).

Sheet 22 of the 1827 Tischbein set of the “Fair Game” Nagler 44 – Lindner 11.2083.01; Schwerdt III, 173 – as a compilation mounted in points of throughout old till earlier impressions. – Trimmed to platemark on three sides. – From the collection of the legendary railroad king DR. STROUSBERG, Berlin. – A SHEET FULL OF SUSPENSE.

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19.

Johann Elias Ridinger (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 with 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. 13⅜ × 16½ in (34 × 42 cm).

Thienemann & Schwarz 211. – Illustration Exhibition Catalog Schöne Beute — Bilder von der Jagd of the Dr.-Hanns-Simon-Stiftung Bitburg, 2013, p. 24. – Sheet 16 of the CONTEMPLATION OF THE WILD ANIMALS with the caption of the Hamburg pope of poets, jurist & senator, yet foremost 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 parched thirst, below the bush in the wet reed. Hear him breathe, see him root, 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 … ”

Marvelous impression of this as dynamic as painterly-beautiful sheet

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.

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20.

Frans Snyders (1579 Antwerp 1657). Lioness striking a Wild Boar. In hilly extended landscape overgrown with trees the boar in front has already gone onto his fore knees with the lioness jumped laterally onto his back and bitten into his neck. Chalk lithograph by Ferdinand Piloty (Homburg, Saar Palatinate, 1786 – Munich 1844) printed with yellow-brownish and medium brownish tone plates. (1816.) Erroneous inscription: P. Snayers (Pieter Snayers, 1592 Antwerp after 1666) pinx: / f. Pilotj del. 15⅝ × 21⅝ in (39.8 × 55 cm).

Winkler, Die Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie, 622/24, II (of III) & 954, 12. – Cf. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich 1989, no. 258 with ills. & Hantschmann, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Munich 1996, p. 354, no. 71.

Incunabulum of lithography. – The 2^nd state equivalent to the first except for the largely removed chalk traces extending beyond the picture left and below. The 3^rd state printed with only one tone plate in subdued chamois with simultaneous omission of the bold framing line. – Watermark M(anufacture) a (?) Hartmann.

Sheet 12 of the 200-sheet set “Bavarian Picture Gallery at Munich and Schleißheim” published since 1816 and with 18¼ × 25¼ in (46.4 × 64.2 cm) virtually corresponding to the sheet size of about 18½ × 25⅝ in (47 × 65 cm) Winkler reports for the set and by this with fine wide margins of 3.3-4.5 cm and also otherwise of quite excellent condition.

The spacious, “far seen” (Bernt) ambience of the exceptional motif from about 1620/25 supposedly by Jan Wildens (1586-1653, see Robels 259 and additionally pp. 147 f.).

In the expressionist new setting of a desert oasis as ambience as familiar to him as lion hunts Franz Heckendorf used the motif for his painting of Lioness striking a Wild Boar in the Oasis.

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21.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). La Chasse du Sanglier. The Boar Hunt. In dense forest “hunters mounted and on foot, some blowing. The boar hounds have grabbed a big boar, and a hunter just kills it” (Th.). Etching with engraving. (1729.) Inscribed: Pars III^tia / avec privil de Sa. Maj. Imp. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug.Vind., otherwise as above and with German-French didactic text. 13¼ × 16⅛ in (33.6 × 41 cm).

Thienemann + Schwarz 34; Catalog Weigel XXVIII (1857), Ridinger appendix 3A (“Old impressions with the original title. The paper has lines as watermark.”); Juliane Scheffold, Jagd-Methoden im 18. Jhdt., in Triesdorfer Hefte 9, Die Jagd der Markgrafen von Brandenburg-Ansbach in der Frühmoderne, 2010, pp. 61 f. with ills.

Served about 1770 as model of the part décor of the sugar bowl of the Meissen Déjeuner-Service Pietsch (ed.), Porzellan Parforce, Munich 2005, no. 75 with ills.

From the unnumbered early 36-sheet Princes’ Pleasure, listed by literature as its 22^nd sheet. – Watermark Large Fleur-de-lis (Strasbourg?) visible in outline only. – Margins on three sides 2-4.3, on the right 5.5 cm wide. – Slight box pleat in the already rather marginal left subject with two long, yet done margin tears extending above still 5.5 cm into the foliage, below, however, only affecting the text field and 5 mm of the subject’s edge and generally somewhat age-marked including two wormholes, one of which in the foliage of the left part of the subject. – On the back scribbles by a collector’s grandson. – Impression of nuanced vibrant chiaroscuro.

Offer no. 15,476 | sold

22.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). In the Year 1718. This Big Lynx as he had attacked a Main Boar, cast off by him when passing through a thicket, had been shot in the Tübingen Forest, by a High Princely Württemberg Hunter, as he stood on watch for a roe. The latter sitting above in a tree. Etching with engraving. Inscribed: 6. (sic!) / J. El. Ridinger fec. 1745., otherwise in German as above. 13¼ × 9¾ in (33.5 × 24.8 cm).

Thienemann (“A fine sheet.”) & Schwarz 283; Weigel (1857) 20 D (“New impressions”). – Sheet 41 of the 101-sheet set of the Most Wondrous Deer and other Peculiar Animals, here after erasure of the original numbering apparently renumbered in the plate, else in writing, as sheet 6 of the self-contained set Other Wondrous Animals (Niemeyer II.2) of the edition jointly published by Engelbrecht and Herzberg about 1824/25 with the six boars as the beginning.

Splendid impression on heavy wove paper watermarked (Thurn)eisen G(rand). R(eserve). of the Thurneisen mills flourishing from 1558 until 1925 at Basel (until 1886), Kandern (1819-1852), and Maulburg (1836-1925). – Margins laterally 4.5, top/bottom 6.2-7.6 cm wide. – At the corners quite slight traces of former mounting to supporting sheet, otherwise perfect.

Offer no. 16,235 | sold

23.

Eligius (Eloy) Baron von Seyfert (Germany about 1766 – Lorraine/Metz after 1808; Balclis: fl. 1790-1825). The Darmstadt Tusker of 1765. Oil on canvas after Georg Adam Eger (1727 Murrhardt 1808). Inscribed in German with the brush: Seyfert / Metz 1804 (lower right in light brown) & One such Main Boar / 6. feet long. 3 ft. 7. inch clear high / has been catched alive in the so-called Koberstatt a’rheilger Forest / the 4^th of December 1765. and By the / Sr. Landgrave at Darmstatt. Most Princely Highness / killed with crackers. / Has weighed after the mating season 530 ℔. the head alone 85 ℔. – (lower left in black on brownish ground). 14¾ × 12 in (37.6 × 30.5 cm). Baroque profile frame in the style of Louis XIV with most richly ornamented & chased gilt stucco decoration with large Bourbon fleur-de-lis as corner cartouches and 8 shell-shaped acanthus cartouches surrounded by acanthus scroll.

by Seyfert introduced 1924 by Bénézit’s Dictionnaire des Peintres into general literature with i. a. landscapes with 1789 and 1802 ff. as ascertained for Metz. In the museum there the portrait of François of Lorraine, Duke of Guise (catalog 1891, no. 71).

The painting in Eger’s palette honeycombed with rich craquelure decidedly fine, of subdued luster and very good preservation on the original stretcher. Evidently in place of a framing the edges of the canvas were furnished on the latter with narrow border in brown brush. In this state the painting still was after 1879.

In the event-adequate atmospheric mise-en-scène
of a winter day drawing to a close yet
a rarity in Eger’s œuvre .
All the more so with an unparalleled tusker .

Offer no. 16,128 | price on application

24.

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This Snub=Eared Main Boar with Cropped Tail which on the left had the large Tusk broken off and on the right the Tusks grown crosswise His High Princely Serenity the ruling Sire Landgrave Louis (VIII) of Hesse-Darmstadt has cropped the ears with serene hand himself 12. years ago and in the 1749^th year January. 18 wounded in the Bessungen Forest (Roßdorf, south of Darmstadt) and ditto 30^th even shot in the All Saints Forest (Langen/Hesse, north of D.). Copper printing plate in reverse. Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. A. V. 1753., otherwise in German as before. 13¾ × 9⅞ in (34.9 × 25.2 cm).

The optically excellently preserved

original printing plate

to sheet 58 (etching with engraving, Thienemann & Schwarz 300; Ridinger Catalog Darmstadt, 1999, VI.3, ills.; Siebert-Weitz, Ridinger, 1999, pp. 28 f. with ills.) of the 101-sheet set Representation of the Most Wondrous Deer and Other Animals published since 1735 at the latest

in the reddish golden brilliance of its 265 years old copper

here traced back far beyond Thieme-Becker (vol. XXVIII, 1933, p. 308) seamlessly directly to the master’s estate itself. And therewith correcting Thienemann (1856) who deemed the plates of the Most Wondrous lost. But so a worldwide unique collector’s object of degree, too. – The original number “58” restored again on occasion of a later 19^th century edition after it had been changed for a separate set in the mid-twenties.

(distinctly visible the clipped ears as typical), “an able bulldog” (Th.), melancholy about the end of this so brave bristly fellow. This idyll then not affected by the crying of the wounded lateral male dog. One barely notes the disturber.

“ The (packer) wears a somewhat mysterious muzzle. The deformed teeth of the boar, the clipped ears, and the stump tail are clearly visible ”

(S.-Weitz pp. 28 & 30).

“ Contrary to most other hunting successes of Louis VIII published by Ridinger no further evidence has been preserved to this sheet of the series in the Kranichstein collection ”

(Morét).

Shielded from tarnishing by fine application of varnish, the plate is generally printable in the ordinary course of its use through the times, however, it is offered and sold as a work of art and a collector’s item, thus without prejudice to its eventual printing quality. – Shortly,

a conceivably pleasing , worldwide unique absolutum .

Proposed to you with the recommendation of a timeless-elegantly frameless hanging (fittings included) for that you will experience the reflection of the respective light to the fullest.

Offer no. 15,009 | price on application

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