Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). The Trotting. Besides further rich horse scenery a young horse ridden at the longe around the pillar and followed by another horseman. In the background farmers at work. Mezzotint. Inscribed: Georg Philipp Rugendas Pict. invent. del. fec. et exc. Aug. Vind. otherwise as below. 49 x 67.3 cm.

Teuscher 124 + ills.; Stillfried 361. – Leaf 7 of the 12leaved (or 3 à 4 leaves resp.) Horse Dressage T. 118-129. – Not in Nagler. – With subtext in Latin + German:

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

In the first Latin line here “Succussu”, there “Successu”. Behind “gradus” of the second line here a “.”. In the second German line here “Das” and “u.” with top dash for “u.(nd)”, there “das” and unsolved “u.”.

With surrounding margins of 0.5-1.5 cm. – Smoothened creasing nearly not noticeable from the front. Equally not a pintip-fine hole.

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. 28,164 / EUR  1995. / export price EUR  1895. (c. US$ 2638.) + shipping

Also see plates 5 + 8 of this set
and plates 1 + 2 of the riding school Teuscher 68-75.

“ … and I wish to thank you for packing it so carefully … ”

(Mr. P. M., August 28, 2003)