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Joseph Anton Koch
1768-1839
River Landscape Along the Tiber near the Acqua Acetosa
1814
Watercolor over graphite with gum glaze.
8 x 10 15/16 inches (202 x 278 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.141
Inscription: 

Signed and dated on original support, folded under, in graphite at lower left "Joseph Koch 1814"; inscribed on original support, folded under, at lower center, "Acqua Cetosa/ bei Rom".

Provenance: 
Sale, Berlin, Amsler & Ruthardt, 92, 5 June 1912, lot 765, repr. (acccording to C.G. Boerner Inc.); Dr. Hans Boerner, Leipzig; by descent; C.G. Boerner Inc., New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Boerner, Hans, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 224, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 19.

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Koch, Joseph Anton
School: 
Austrian
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints