A Splendid Young Stag before a Wattle Fence, 1736

Not on View

Medium

graphite and gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 27 x 39.2 cm (10 5/8 x 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2006.146.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Elias Ridinger (artist) German, 1698 - 1767

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 731 x ate - ; by later hand in graphite, center: MA6 1820; by later hand, lower left verso in brown ink: No 1282 (crossed out) N. 65A; by later hand, lower right verso: no 6 004

Provenance

(Lutz Riester, Freiburg); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Riester, Lutz

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 78 b.