Waterfall near Subiaco

landscape

This typical painting by Koch was executed in 1813 in Vienna after sketches made in Italy. It is enlivened by a peasant group, probably cribbed from a Flemish source. Though it suggests a Flight into Egypt, that is no baby, it is a fruit basket.

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About the Artist

Joseph Anton Koch

1768 – 1839

Austrian painter, active mainly in Rome, where he settled in 1795. He was influenced by Carstens and worked with the Nazarenes on the decorations of the Casino Massimo (1825-29) in Rome, choosing Dante's Inferno for his subject, but is now best known for his landscapes. They were directly descended from the heroic and ideal landscape of Poussin, but have a distinctive Romantic flavour, particularly in his paintings of mountains.

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