Description
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.
Accession Number
203867
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.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Credit Line
Margaret Day Blake Fund
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