Joseph Anton Koch, 1768-1839, Lauterbrunnertal near Unterseen with the Jungfrau Mountain, Dahl, 1788-1857, Ca. 1821, Painting, Landscape Painting, Koch painted this picture in Rome on the basis of drawings he had made during a period spent in Switzerland 1792-94. The Norwegian landscape artist Dahl, whom Thorvaldsen held in high regard, was in Rome just at the time when this picture was being painted, and it is believed that the shepherd and his lass and the goats were painted by Dahl himself

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