Signed, in pen and black ink, lower right, verso: J. E. Ridinger (Hamburg - Weigel)
Two Bison, between 1738 and 1740
- Johann Elias Ridinger, German, 1698-1769
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)
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.136
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Details
E. Parsons & Sons (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 34-35, no. 11 (ill.).
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.