Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte
Joseph Anton Koch
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.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
