# Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

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## Artwork

- Artist: [KOCH, Joseph Anton](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 96 cm

## Commentary

This signed and dated painting is the fourth and final version of a composition he first painted in 1805. Koch renewed the genre of the heroic landscape, which had been established by the seventeenth-century French masters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.

## Related artworks

- [Heroic Landscape with Rainbow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/heroic-landscape-with-rainbow-ra5c8d6d4b1a945>)
- [Monastery of San Francesco di Civitella in the Sabine Mountains](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/monastery-of-san-francesco-di-civitella-in-the-sabine-mountains-r0106cf92d13a66>)
- [Mountain Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/mountain-scene-r52995a59ee7849>)
- [The Schmadribach Falls](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/the-schmadribach-falls-re063f451e32349>)
- [The Upland near Bern](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/the-upland-near-bern-r22d831bac3d152>)
- [Waterfall near Subiaco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/koch-joseph-anton-r130a6d6e5d5d30/waterfall-near-subiaco-r84f7cb9b7ae660>)

## Attribution

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