Joseph Anton Koch
Obergibeln 1768-1839 Rome
Roman Campagna
c. 1815
Oil on panel
22,5 x 29,5 cm
Old inscription verso: "Ant. Koch / Roma"
EXHIBITIONS:
Deutsche Zeichnungen aus zwei Jahrhunderten, C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf 1952, no. 13, p. 5, (ill.), “Otto von Lutterotti points out its authenticity and dates it to a later period of the artist’s oeuvre.”
Blick aus dem Fenster, Gemälde und Zeichnungen der Romantik und des Biedermeier, Schloss Cappenberg, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund 1956, cat.-no. 79 (ill.)
PROVENANCE:
A. de Ridder Collection
C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1952
Busche Collection, Dortmund
We would like to thank Dr. Christian von Holst, Stuttgart, for his comments on this painting and dating it c. 1815, where Koch combined elements of his 1810 “Roman Views” with an “Ideal Italian Landscape”.