Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Familiarizing to the Saddle. Putting on and accustoming to the school saddle without shoes, work with the wooden bites. Placed back other training scenario. Mezzotint. Inscribed: Georg Philipp Rugendas Pict. invent. delin. fec. et excud. Aug. Vind. otherwise as below. 49 x 67.3 cm.

Teuscher 122 + ills.; Stillfried 359. – Leaf 5 of the 12leaved (or 3 à 4 leaves resp.) Horse Dressage T. 118-129. – Not in Nagler. – Numbered with 5 (see below). – With subtext in Latin + German:

Deviations against Teuscher supposed as slips in quoting due to deadline pressure there:

No. “5” instead of “15”. – In the 4^th Latin line here “,” follows to “simul” where T. quotes a “;”. And the “u.” in the third German line there as dotless “u” with top dash for “u(nd)”.

With surrounding margins of 1.1 cm. – Only little conspicuous from the front the smoothened creasing. Here also nearly not noticeable a larger backed tear in the text margin lower right with minimal retouched loss of letters. Some more little holes not recognizable, two of these also backed.

Extremely  rare, the leaves of this set are missing, i. a., within the c. 27,600 lots of Weigel’s Art Stock Catalogue, parts I-XXVIII, 1838-1857, the Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub with rarities like Ridinger’s Riding School in imperial oblong dissolved in 1963, and the Sarasin Collection (1999). The copy here

Who conceded the wonderful leaves of this set with their marvellous horses the place which already a hundred years ago Wilhelm Schmidt summing up in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie assigned to Rugendas:

“ Doubtless, set into better circumstances, e.g. living in the Netherlands about 1650, he would have become an artist who

would  have  surpassed  all  his  horse  and  battle  competitors . ”

Offer no. 28,163 / EUR  1995. / export price EUR  1895. (c. US$ 2452.) + shipping

Also see plates 7 + 8 of this set
and plates 1 + 2 of the riding school Teuscher 68-75.

„ Danke für den wunderbaren (Ridinger-)Scan … der meine Argumentation zur Verwechslung in der Staffierung der Porzellane dokumentarisch bestens belegt. Darf ich um Ihre Zustimmung bitten, ihn in meiner Arbeit zeigen zu dürfen? “

(Herr J. R., 7. Juni 2004)