Saint Roch
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 6 7/16 in. (23.6 × 16.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
Accession Number
67.539.208
Art Historical Context
Behold *Saint Roch* (1756), a delicate etching and engraving by skilled Austrian printmaker Joseph Wagner and his Italian collaborator Francesco Bartol. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's and Prints department, this sheet—measuring just 9 5/16 × 6 7/16 inches—was acquired through the Harry G. Friedman Be in 1967. during the mid-18th century, exemplifies the era's refined printmaking techniques, blending etching's fluid, spontaneous lines with engraving's precise, controlled incisions for exceptional clarity and tonal depth. Saint Roch, the beloved patron saint invoked against plagues,...
About the Artist
Joseph Wagner|Francesco Bartolozzi · 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...