Landscape with Temple
Joseph Wagner|Charles Louis Clérisseau
ca. 1750–70
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in. (36 × 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.235
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Joseph Wagner|Charles Louis Clérisseau · 1706–1780
Joseph Wagner (1706–1780) was a highly accomplished German engraver and draughtsman who spent the majority of his career in Venice, where he became one of the most important figures in eighteenth-century Venetian printmaking. Born in Thalendorf near Lake Constance in 1706, Wagner initially trained as a painter under the Venetian-born artist Jacopo Amigoni before being persuaded to dedicate himself...