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Leather Bound Album of 7 drawings

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Johann Elias Ridinger
1698-1767

Leather Bound Album of 7 drawings

360 x 434 mm
Red chalk
2023.54:1-7

Gift of Mary Ann Kraus Folter.

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.
Associated names
Lanna, Adalbert, freiherr von, 1867-1922, former owner.
Gutman, Rudolf von, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Folter, Mary Ann Kraus, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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Department