
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
In the hitherto unknown second state :
Pastor bonus
“With the assistance of a friend very skilled
and experienced in the art of riding … drawn from nature”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation et Description de toutes les leçons de Chevaux de Manege et de la Campagne …
Ridinger’s admirable, most comprehensive School
in its first edition in absolutely complete state
from an English private collection of the first hour
Pride dispising others will come to naught by itself
Of extreme rarity :
The Large Sheet of Dance Macabre
A Trouvaille after Boucher :
The Happy Shepherd’s Life in wonderfully large leaf
One of the finest, most elegant sujets :
Coursing a Hare. Chasseur aux levrieres
The Great Black Bear. L’ours grand et noir
Belonging to the earliest works etched by himself :
Animal Pieces. Set of 6 leaves after Johann Heinrich Roos
Let the bees go :
Spring-Gun on a Bear
Washed brush and brown pen and ink for Th. 76
Also discover Johann Elias Ridinger in
publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer
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art-historical lectures and essays