PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
GEORGE NIKOLAUS RITTER (HEILBRONN 1748/49 - 1809 AMSTERDAM)
Gentleman standing beside his horse
numbered in black chalk No 4 (lower centre); bearing N. Ritter in pen and brown ink (on the old backing sheet, now separated from the drawing, but retained).
black chalk on paper
347 x 261 mm
framed

Born in Germany, though working primarily in the Netherlands, George Nikolaus Ritter was famed for his work in portraiture, still lifes and hunting scenes. The present work combines all of the above in a charming display of foppish excellence characteristic of late eighteenth-century English men’s fashion.