DANIEL DÜRINGER, (1720 Steckborn 1786) "Das alte Schlos Aspermont, in Pündten". Black pen, brown and grey watercolour. 25,5:42,4 cm. On strong laid paper. View of the ruins of castle Aspermont in Trimmis, the Grisons. The castle was built on the foundations of a Roman watchtower, and served well from 1250 to 1550, when it was abandoned. Daniel Düringer was a potter master, before becoming a renowned portraitist, animalist and landscape draftsman. He also did a lot of model drawings for stove paintings.