Self-Portrait of the Artist's Father in a Forest

after 1767

Martin Elias Ridinger

Artist, German, c. 1730 - 1780

Martin Elias Ridinger, after Johann Elias Ridinger

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 35 × 26.2 cm (13 3/4 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.39.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler 1835 - 1852: no. 1.

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 1.

Inscriptions

lower left in image: ipso / inv: et / del.; below image in plate: Wer hat das Thierreich so in seines Pinsels Macht?... / ...Wurde geboren in Ulm Ao. 1698 den 15. Febr. und Gestor= / ben in Augspurg Ao. 1767 den 10 April, in Kupfer ge= / stochen von seinem Sohn Mart. Elias. Ridinger

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