
c. 1816
Chicago, United States
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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.
Medium
Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper