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

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

c. 1816

Joseph Anton Koch Austrian, 1768-1839

Austria

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.

Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper

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