• When India stopped the West :
  Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
  The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18^th century
• Alexander the Great 326 at the Hyphasis / Punjab
  (issue 15 of the publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer)
• Spectacular Ridinger discovery — “Death’s Arch of Triumph”
  Allegory of Death (after Andrea Andreani)
  “A pasticcio of iconographic, iconological, and artistic citations”
• The Descent from th Cross after Charles Le Brun
  Consepulti sumus cum illo per Baptismum in mortem. Rom. VI. v. IV.
  The brilliant plate in largest Imperial format
• One of the largest Ridinger drawings :
  Daniel in the Den of Lions
  as symbolic parable for the Israelites
• Imperial Thanks
  Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
  Issued by Imperial Count Palatine Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein
  Augsburg 24 August 1746
• 3 x illustrious prior possession
  Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
  Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
  Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389
• Inspired by Watteau :
  The work of self-identification for the minimized Ridinger
  The Hippocrene or The Donation of Water
• Unique in the Ridinger Œuvre
  The Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolles Collection :
  An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below
• Two undescribed Ridingers and a bow before our female hunters
  Young Huntresses in the Character of Diana

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