Saint Patrice
Pierre Roche
1851 to 1875
Medium
gypsograph
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1449
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pierre Roche · 1855–1922
Pierre Roche, born Pierre Henry Ferdinand Massignon in Paris on August 2, 1855, was a multifaceted French artist renowned as a sculptor, painter, ceramist, medallist, and printmaker. The son of a pharmacist, he initially studied medicine and chemistry before turning to the arts. From 1873 to 1878, he trained as a painter at the Académie Julian under Alfred Roll and exhibited at the Paris Salon fro...