Otto Greiner

(1869-1916)
Web Site Name

Mounted Archer

1896,

black chalk, pencil, and white brush
 
Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Nude Study of a Mounted Archer [Aktstudie zu einem reitenden Bogenschützen], 

a male nude from behind, seated (presumably on a horse), drawing a bow

[Männlicher Rückenakt sitzend, einen Bogen spannend]


1896

black chalk, pencil. and white brush on tan paper
45 x 30,9 cm

signed and dated right center: "O. Greiner  Sept. 96"

The Daulton Collection

Provenance:

Spaightwood Galleries (Prof. Andrew D. "Andy" Weiner, 1943-2023), Madison, Wisconsin (later Upton, Massachusetts), from whom acquired by The Daulton Collection in July 2004

Discussion:

There is a virtually identical drawing in the Drawings Collection (Kupferstich-Kabinett) of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen). See: Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing 1925), pg. 36, ill. 45.  The existence of two nearly identical examples of this drawing is a mystery.  The most likely explanation is that Greiner made a copy, tracing the original, at the request of a valued collector after he had committed to sell the original to the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett in 1898.
view of the virtually identical drawing in the Dresden Drawings Collection:
Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)
Aktstudie zu einem reitenden Bogenschützen (Nude Study of a Mounted Archer)
1896
black chalk, pencil, and white brush
46,4 x 31,7 cm
signed and dated right center: "O. Greiner Sept. 96."
Kupferstich-Kabinett Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Inventory Number C 1898-18
purchased directly from the artist

Published in Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing 1925), pg. 36, ill. 45.
Contact:
The Daulton Collection
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