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Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

1824
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 806
The classically-trained painter Joseph Anton Koch was a father figure to many German-speaking artists who visited Rome in the early nineteenth century. He renewed the genre of heroic landscape painting, which had been established by the seventeenth-century French masters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Koch’s fame rests on this iconic image, which he referred to as a “Greek landscape.” It is the fourth and final version of a composition he first painted in 1805 (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Heroic Landscape with Rainbow
  • Artist: Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, Obergibeln bei Elbigenalp 1768–1839 Rome)
  • Date: 1824
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 42 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (108.6 x 95.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Anne Cox Chambers Gift, Gift of Alfred and Katrin Romney, by exchange, and Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art Funds, 2008
  • Object Number: 2008.420
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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