Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

Prints and Drawings

c. 1816

Joseph Anton Koch
Austrian, 1768-1839

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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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joseph Anton Koch
Title: Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte
Place: Austria (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1811–1821
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.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Fund
Reference Number: 2010.340
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