Johann Elias Ridinger
1698-1767
Leather Bound Album of 7 drawings [album].
ca. 1730-1760
Red chalk
360 x 434 mm
Gift of Mary Ann Kraus Folter.
2023.54:1-7
Notes:
The eighteenth-century German painter, printmaker, and publisher Johan Elias Ridinger was a specialist in the depiction of animals, initially of horses and hunt scenes, but later of wild animals as well. The drawings in this portfolio are akin to his many studies of formal riding schools, and the squaring suggests that the drawings were intended to be made into engravings, but no related prints have yet been found among the more than 1600 sheets that Ridinger published.
Provenance:
Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt 2773); at whose 1911 auction bought by Rudolf von Gutmann (Lugt 2770); from whom purchased by Hans P. Kraus (1907-1988); by whom given to his daughter, Mary Ann Folter.
Associated names:
Folter, Mary Ann B., former owner.
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