Saint Patrick heals a cripple

Patricius, better known as St Patrick, Ireland’s national saint, played an important role in the Christianization of that country in the 5th century. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted the large altarpiece after which this etching was made around 1746. The two kneeling figures at the right in the foreground of the painting making a somewhat stiff, uncomfortable impression may be the work of the young Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. He also produced this print after the altarpiece.