Stags in a Landscape
Johann Elias Ridinger
early to mid-18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Dimensions
9 3/4 × 13 1/4 in. (24.8 × 33.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1974
Accession Number
1974.110
Tags
DeerLandscapesTrees
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 ...