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Johann Elias Ridinger Album

01.Front cover
02. Inside front cover–front flyleaf recto
03. Front flyleaf verso–2023.54:1 recto
04. 2023.54:1 verso–2023.54:2 recto
05. 2023.54:2 verso–2023.54:3 recto
06. 2023.54:3 verso-2023.54:4 recto
07. 2023.54:4 verso–2023.54:5 recto
08. 2023.54:5 verso–2023.54:6 recto
09. 2023.54:6 verso–2023.54:7 verso
10. 2023.54:7 verso–back flyleaf recto
11. Back flyleaf verso–inside back cover
12. Back cover
Drawing of male figure on horseback in red chalk.

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.

Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767)
Leather Bound Album of 7 drawings
ca. 1730–1760
Red chalk
360 x 434 mm
Gift of Mary Ann Kraus Folter
2023.54:1-7