Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Click here to view our store | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel (German,1804-1861) Title: Love-The Ruler Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original Bas Relief by master engraver Richard Austin Artlett (English, 1807-1873). Year: 1869Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image Size 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 16 x 18 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This engraving is more than 140 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original Bas Relief was once owned by E. M. Ward. Extra Information: The Bas Relief of 'Love, the Ruler,' exhibited at the late International Exhibition, in Paris, from which is was purchased by artist Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A., is comparatively small in size, but nobly grand in design. Most powerful is the modelling of the panther, majestic are its action and expression, kept in check, as it is, by its winged rider, who bestrides the strong animal like a well trained jockey, holding his wild steed in his hands, restraining its impetuosity, and guiding him whithersoever he will. Artist Biography: Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel was a German sculptor. Rietschel was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony. At an early age he became an art student at Dresden, and subsequently a pupil of Rauch in Berlin. He there gained an art studentship, and studied in Rome in 1827-28. After returning to Saxony, he soon brought himself into notice by a colossal statue of Frederick Augustus, King of Saxony; was elected a member of the academy of Dresden, and became one of the chief sculptors of his country. In 1832 he was elected to the Dresden professorship of sculpture, and had many foreign orders of merit conferred on him by the governments of different countries. He died in Dresden in 1861. Rietschel's style was very varied; he produced works imbued with much religious feeling, and to some extent he occupied the same place as a sculptor that Overbeck did in painting. Other important works by him were purely classical in style. He was specially famed for his portrait figures of eminent men, treated with much idealism and dramatic vigour; among the latter class his chief works were colossal statues of Goethe and Schiller for the a monument in Weimar, of Weber for Dresden and of Lessing for Braunschweig cast by Georg Howaldt. He also designed the memorial statue of Luther for Worms, but died before he could carry it out. The principal among Rietschel's religious pieces of sculpture are the well-known Christ-Angel, and a life-sized Piet, executed for the king of Prussia. He also worked a great deal in rilievo, and produced many graceful pieces, especially a fine series of bas-reliefs representing "Night and Morning," "Noon and Twilight," designed with much poetical feeling and imagination. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. Buyer accepts responsibility for any additional shipping charges. | Click here to view our store | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS |
Price: 454 USD
Location: Cape Coral, Florida
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Production Technique: Engraving
Framing: Framed
Type: Print
Subject: Animals
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Print Type: Engraving
Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
