Landscape with Bileam

Title

Landscape with Bileam

Draughtsman

• Joseph Anton Koch

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite-clay mixture
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• pencil drawing
• squaring

Geographic Reference

• Austrian

Production Reason

• figure study
• animal study
• movement study
• composition study
• landscape study

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet oben rechts (mit Bleistift): III / 3
Verso unten rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

• Lutterotti Z 253

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1916

Genre

• landscape
• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Bileam (Prophet)

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Altes Testament

Primary

• 71E33141 Balaam strikes his ass, whereupon the ass lies down and starts to speak
• 71E3314 an angel holding a sword bars the way and causes Balaam's ass to turn aside; the angel is invisible to Balaam
• 25HH114(+1) low hill country - HH - ideal landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage)