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Joseph Anton Koch
1768-1839 -
J.C. Dahl
1788-1857
Lauterbrunnertal near Unterseen with the Jungfrau Mountain
Production Date
, Ca. 1821Type of Work / Object
Painting > Landscape Painting
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Location
Inventory Number
B128
Catalogue Number
B128Catalogue Level / Collection
Thorvaldsen's Collections > Collection of Paintings (B)
Explanation
- Koch painted this picture in Rome on the basis of drawings he had made during a period spent in Switzerland 1792-94. The Norwegian landscape artist I.C. Dahl, whom Thorvaldsen held in high regard, was in Rome just at the time when this picture was being painted, and it is believed that the shepherd and his lass and the goats were painted by Dahl himself, something that also seems probable if we compare these figures with the corresponding figures of animals in Dahl’s Norwegian Mountain Valley. The painting is in general atypical of Koch, and it has been suggested that the entire picture was in fact painted by Dahl and based on Koch’s composition.
Dimension
- Height 74.5 cm
- Width 98.1 cm
Art Form / Craft
Painting
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Acquisition Mode
Bequest from Bertel ThorvaldsenAcquisition Date
March 24, 1844
Exhibition History
- Medgang og modgang. Udvekslinger i dansk og tysk kunst, Museum Sønderjylland, Kunstmuseet Tønder, June 30, 2020 - January 7, 2021
- Fortegnelse over de ved det Kongelige Akademie for de skjönne Kunstner offentligen udstillede Kunstværker, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, March 31, 1843 - May 17, 1843, cat. no. 324
- TRAVELLING, Thorvaldsens Museum, October 9, 2024 - February 26, 2025