Plague Victims Pleading for Help from Christ, the Virgin, and Saint Roch
1567/1573
Artist, Brescian, c. 1530 - 1574

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, with a small patched pasted over the head of the Virgin and then redrawn
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 28.9 x 16.3 cm (11 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.89
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063). Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 6.
Bibliography
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 36, under no. 13 (entry by Richard Harprath).
1979
Di Giampaolo, Mario. Review of G. Vezzoli and P. Virgilio Begni Redona, Lattanzio Gambara, pittore. _Prospettiva 18 (July 1979): 58.
1991
Tanzi, Marco. Lattanzio Gambara nel Duomo di Parma. Turin, 1991: 30, fig. 16.
1995
Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: under no. 10.
1996
Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: under no. 10 (reproduced).
Inscriptions
at lower left in brown ink: Barocio; at lower right in brown ink: 22; verso, at lower right in graphite: 11
Wikidata ID
Q64592676