Joseph Anton Koch
Austrian, 1768-1839
Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte
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Joseph Anton Koch
Austrian, 1768-1839c. 1816
Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte
Joseph Anton Koch Austrian, 1768-1839 →drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
c. 1816
Medium
Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
21.3 × 31 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake Fund
The painter and printmaker Joseph Anton Koch was a peasant wunderkind whose talent for drawing attracted patronage across Europe. He ultimately settled in Rome in 1815. This study is for the second oil he painted of the subject; the first painting was destroyed in a fire.
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