Mountainous landscape with herdsmen and cows
ca. 1725–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 9 3/4 × 12 3/16 in. (24.7 × 30.9 cm) Sheet: 10 11/16 × 13 1/8 in. (27.2 × 33.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962
Accession Number
62.557.125
About the Artist
Joseph Wagner|Franz Joachim Beich · 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...