Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (To Whistle the Roe! or How the Roes are shot at the Breast.) On the right at the beginning of a sloping course the roebuck making the death-bound, the doe behind it looking up surprisedly. On the left within the thicket under a tree the hunter along with the baiting assistant still pointing the gun with outlined line of fire. Wooded scenery, in front right below the roes a water with a dead tree-trunk sunk in. Pen and brown ink and wash. On the subtext mounted on verso inscribed in brown pen: Johan(n) Elias Ridinger inv. et del: 1758-., otherwise as before and following. 214 x 361 mm.
Drawing not executed in copper on the hunt with the mating call missing in the graphic œuvre and in a such a manner thematically complementing the Princes’ Hunting Pleasure created about 30 years earlier and in regard of the pure image size remaining behind the oblong format of this, namely c. 5 cm in the height and c. 4 cm in the width, but like those with 6-line explanation (in German) of the procedure, too:
“ (One takes the outer bark from birches, makes thereon a call of two voices like the doe when it is alarmed for its fawns, but the call must be right far off and pure. Now when in such a place where the roebucks stay in oneself lies in wait, so the latter will appear shortly, especially if the roebuck does not have a doe with it. But the hunter must get very ready for shot for they turn about quickly and abscond if they notice the merest or get wind so that it is need that one take the shooting stand below the wind. For the call could taken also leaves of apple, beech, and pear, but the bark of the birch is the best.) ”
Trimmed at the fine border-line in brown ink and, possibly throughout already contemporarily, mounted by old on laid paper with border washed in green and edged by fine lines in brown ink. The drawing additionally lined by a slender streak of gilt paper. The whole mounted anew on laid paper laminated repeatedly which margin has been washed in black. Here three wormholes coming from back. A tender other one only in front and here in the image centre noticeable only a little. An even browness caused by mounting affecting the impression of the image less than giving it rather a very fine authentic patina.
Offer no. 28,909 / price on request