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

Signed, in pen and black ink, lower right, verso: J. E. Ridinger (Hamburg - Weigel)

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.