Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte - Joseph Anton Koch

Margaret Day Blake Fund

"Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte" by Joseph Anton Koch (c. 1816) Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper.

Commentary

"Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte" by Joseph Anton Koch (c. 1816) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include drawings (visual works). Thi s piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Joseph Anton Koch is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Joseph Anton Koch Austrian, 1768-1839. The work is cataloged within a Austria cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as drawings (visual works), which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pen and dark gray ink, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (21.3 × 31 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/4 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include drawings (visual works). Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/203867

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data