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Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

A work made of pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper.

Date:

c. 1816

Artist:

Joseph Anton Koch
Austrian, 1768-1839

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

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:)

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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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