Otto Greiner
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.
Discussion:
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.
