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Joseph Anton Koch

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

c. 1816
Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper
21.3 × 31 cm (8.4 × 12.2 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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