Saving Their Hides in the Munich Deer Park

Wintter, Joseph Georg (1751 Munich 1789). The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence. Two stags & three deer in spacious parkland with small accessory figures of a professional together with a boy placed back. However, besides the enchanting easiness of the scenery and the plenty of growth two splintered tree vanities mixed in (in)ignorably. Etching. Inscribed: JGWintter: inv fecc et exc: Monachÿ 1785 / I. 9 × 13¾ in (22.7 × 34.8 cm).

Niemeyer 66, I (of II); Andresen 111 (The Leap over the Plank); Nagler 14 and irrespective of his “oblong fol.” here and “large oblong fol.” there without a doubt already included in his no. 4, A Set of Four Deer Hunts in Parks, recte Deer in the [Munich] Park (Weigel XIII, 1843, no. 12596); Schwerdt 38, not recognized as the posthumous second state from not before 1821.

With 3-5 mm white margin (in this upper left two minimal tears) trimmed to platemark. Right above still extending into the subject’s hatching thin corner spot with done small tear from previous mounting, in the meadow part before the left stag’s mouth acid-freely backed thrust injury practically imperceptible in the subject.

to the 4-sheet set Deer in the Park (Niemeyer 66-69) and The [Munich] Deer Park (Andresen 111-114) resp. as such had been established by Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel by Patent of 28 May 1717 for the protection of the subjects against damage caused by hunting,

IN THE ESPECIALLY RARE FIRST STATE ON LAID PAPER .

As then also Weigel attested the early consummate 1857 on occasion of the here otherwise not provable 137-sheet complete edition per lot 21336 of his art stock catalog:

“ Most sheets very rare .”

Wintter was electoral Bavarian Court and Hunt Engraver and member of the electoral academy at Dusseldorf and 1787 he was promoted even court chamber councilor as

(pope of forest cameralists Wilhelm Gottfried von Moser, b. 1729, from the “famous family of cameralists” [Heß in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie] 1788 in Forst-Archiv [IV, 280 ff.]), who nevertheless till today remained outside of the small, yet growing circle of intimate connoisseurs under the lee of Ridinger and his continuing overwhelming impact, irrespective of voices of important contemporaries calling to attention just like von Moser with his however in this manner not to be adopted conclusion

“ always better than Riedinger ”

or Lorenz von Westenrieder of the same age (b. 1748, theologian, yet especially historian; “has generally an impressionable eye for scenic beauties” [Höhn]), who praised him highly in his 1783 Almanac of Human History in Bavaria and in 1785 wrote to Christian Felix Weisse, friend of Lessing’s and playwright in Leipsic:

“ This man has extraordinary talents .”

Manifested ultimately in Andresen’s statement (1868)

“ [N]ext to Ridinger the most proficient German depictor of the hunt of his century ”

and 1909 and 1921 resp. Höhn (Studien zur Entwicklung der Münchener Landschaftsmalerei v. Ende d. 18. u. v. Anfang des 19. Jh.: “one of the earliest“ among “the early beginnings of Munich Landscape Painting”) and Wolf (Die Entdeckung der Münchener Landschaft, illustrating seven of his etchings) placed him in wings unrelated unrelated to the hunt.

Present work once more belonging to the hunt, though a sidetrack, in such a manner speaking for itself. And at the same time confirming also in this regard Nagler’s note of 1851 in the Künstler-Lexicon, according to which he

“ yet preferred … to do his studies in the hunting ground ” itself .

And, continuing, his “etchings are excellent and are in the treatment between those by Hollar and Riedinger”. While in the Dictionary of Monogramists (III, no. 68) of 1863 eventually

emphasizing once more expressly the scarcity of these beautiful sheets .

Offer no. 15,657 | EUR 945. | export price EUR 898. (c. US$ 965.) + shipping

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