About the Artwork
Two Bison
between 1738 and 1740
Johann Elias Ridinger
1698-1769
German
Unknown
Pen and sanguine ink on dark yellow laid paper coated on both sides with a transparent substance of undetermined composition
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 10 7/8 inches (31.4 × 27.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.136
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Signed, in pen and black ink, lower right, verso: J. E. Ridinger (Hamburg - Weigel)
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Provenance
E. Parsons & Sons (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 34-35, no. 11 (ill.).
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Johann Elias Ridinger, Two Bison, between 1738 and 1740, pen and sanguine ink on dark yellow laid paper coated on both sides with a transparent substance of undetermined composition. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.136.
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