Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). In the year 1746 this noble personal horse of His High Princely Highness Charles Eugene reigning duke of Wurttemberg was painted from life. ./. and sent to me ./. Its colour was grey speckled with white from front, over the back utterly white with black spots, the thighs dark grey, the mane and tail light. With plait mane and long tail in front of a wall in a riding school, stepping to the left. Etching and engraving after Ermeltraut’s painting from life. (1746.) Inscribed: 46. / Ermeltraut ad vivum pinx. / J. El. Ridinger Sculp: et excud: A: V., otherwise in German as before. 34.2 x 27.7 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 288; Reich auf Biehla Collection 55. – Missing in the Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX (1885). – Sheet 46 of the Wondrous Stags and other peculiar Animals. – “The six horses which are contained in the collection have been sold separately later.” – Very fine though somewhat later impression on buff woven paper with typographic watermark rest, perhaps, however, before the edition about 1824 mentioned by Thienemann for which the number upper right was presumably removed.
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