Johann Wenzel Peter

Johann Wenzel Peter - Self-portrait

Johann Wenzel Peter was born September 9, 1745 in Karlsbad in the now-Czech Republic and died December 28, 1829 in Rome, Italy. Peter is known for his animal paintings which appear in the Vatican Museums and frescos which are on the walls of the Galleria Borghese.

Pope Gregory XVI furnished the Room of the Consistory in the Papal State Apartment with twenty works purchased from Peter.^[1]

Highlighted works

Cambattimento di un leone con una tigre
Johann Wenzel Peter - A pointer and two setters in a classical landscape
Paradiso terrestre
Johann Wenzel Peter - Truthahn, Pfau, Kiebitz, Kaninchen
11698 - Vatican - Pinacoteca (3482061955)
Johann Wenzel Peter - Royal Bengal Tigers
Johann Wenzel Peter - Ein Löwe greift eine Ziege an 1785
Johann Wenzel Peter - Truthähne
Jan Václav Peter - Jelen

References

↑ http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/PINs/PINs_Sala16_06_062.html

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