La Chasse au cerf et au sanglier (Furnishing Fabric)
Johann Elias Ridinger
c. 1780
Medium
Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Dimensions
96.8 × 99.4 cm (38 1/8 × 39 1/8 in.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60698
About the Artist
Johann Elias Ridinger · 1698–1767
Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) was born in Ulm into an artistic family, the son of scribe and artist Johann Daniel Ridinger and Regina Catharina Miller. He received his initial training in Ulm under the painter Christoph Resch, who instructed him in perspective, geometry, and architecture while assigning preparatory tasks like painting wax models. Around 1713, Ridinger moved to Augsburg, where ...