DISCOVERY

Artist: Joseph Anton Koch (Germany, 1768-1839)

Title: Bernese Oberland Landscape with Women Working

Date: ca.1792-94 

Medium: Pen, black ink, brush & brown wash, white heightening, pencil

Dimensions: 8 ¼ x 11 1/8 inches [209 x 280 mm]

Unsigned

Expertise:  Koch authorship was attributed by Fred R. Kline who discovered the drawing.   Kline's attribution was confirmed by Christian von Holst, editor of the Koch Catalogue Raisonne.

Note: The Koch idea was first suggested by Eugene V. Thaw. 

Provenance:

His Family, Bern, Switzerland; and by descent (artist not identified)

Art Market (artist not identified)

Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe (here attributed to Koch)

Eugene V. Thaw

Note: The drawing is widely considered the finest Koch drawing in a United States public collection.

SOLD

Thaw Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York