The Arrival of the Princely Carriage at the Starting Point of the Hunt
ca. 1756
Medium
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a sketch in graphite or black chalk. Framing line in pen and brown ink (lower and right edge) and graphite (upper edge)
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/2 x 18 in. (24.1 x 45.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.315
Tags
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 ...