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The Industrious Hunter, in Spring
Johann Elias RidingerLinkedCulture matchlcp-ce82c4cd395a
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite, on laid ivory paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 222578
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Johann Elias Ridinger, a prolific Augsburg etcher of animals, set up his own printing house in the 1720s, eventually creating a market for his realistic portraits and allegories that stretched across Europe and into Britain. Hunting scenes, including both animals and aristocratic figures, were one of his specialties. This drawing, Spring , and its pendant Winter , come from a series depicting hunters across the four seasons. The hunter portrayed here holds a heron and a rifle as he contentedly gazes at his bounty of deer, rabbits, and other birds.
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- Purchased with funds provided by Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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- Object type
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