Le Grand Exemplaire :
The Fair Game hunted by the different kinds of hounds
With the printing plate of the title as solitaire on the board
With a provenance story as beautiful as rare
close to the immortal Beethoven :
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus
From the master’s “Painterlies” :
A Lynx by the Turnpike
Washed brush and brown pen and ink for Th. 82
The Porcupine
The original printing plate for Th. 480
One of the four mysterious sheets of the Ways to trap
How the Foxes are baited, captured and stalked
Of extreme rarity :
The Great Dance Macabre Th.-St. 1428
Unique in the Ridinger Œuvre
The Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolles Collection :
An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below
“Yet the Rose keeps in Dispute always the Special Price”
The Smell. / Odoratus.
Document of a moment of German history :
In the Year 1734 this Well-Trained Pointer has been drawn from Nature … inside the Pheasantry by the Imperial Pleasure Seat Nymphenburg at Munich
The Art Historical Contribution here to the Ridinger Ceremonial Act
at the University for Technology in Dresden
Continuously updated , enlarged internet version
(in German)
Also discover Johann Elias Ridinger in
publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer
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art-historical lectures and essays