Johann Elias Ridinger

Estimate

12,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Description

Johann Elias Ridinger
A Swan Hunted by Hounds
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash, over indications in pencil, within drawn margins; arched top;
signed and dated in margin, lower left: Johann Elias Ridinger del: et. inv. 1759.

Provenance

With Karl & Faber, Munich, Johann Elias Ridinger, 1979-80, no. 21, acquired by the present owner

Catalogue Note

This is the preparatory drawing for plate no. 9, Der wilde Schwan (fig. 1), in a set of 22 prints of similar sporting subjects, engraved by Ridinger after his own designs, and published under the title Die von verschidenen Arthen der Hunden behaezte Jagtbare Thiere, in Augsburg in 1761.

1. G. Thienemann, Leben und Wirken des ... Thiermalers und Kupferstechers Johann Elias Ridinger, mit ... Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche, Schwarzkunstblätter, Leipzig 1856, no. 147