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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Joseph Anton Koch
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Title
- Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte
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Place
- Austria (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1811–1821
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Medium
- Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- 21.3 × 31 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.340
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/203867/manifest.json