Saint Roch with a Donor, c. 1603

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 37.1 × 26.1 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.), trimmed within platemark

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Bert Freidus

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch 1802-1821, no. 9

Accession Number

2016.151.2

Artists / Makers

Francesco Brizio (artist) Italian, c. 1575 - 1623

Parmigianino (artist after) Parmese, 1503 - 1540

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: ILLVSTRISSIMO PRINCIPI ALEXANDRO ESTENSI CARD: AMPLISSIMO / Mirum opus effigies ROCHI, quam pinxerat auctor / Mirificus BRICI mirifice ere nitet / Haec tibi ALEXANDER debentur dona refulges / Murice qui sacro mirus et ingenio; lower left in plate: Franc: Parm. inv.; lower right in plate: Fran. Bric. f.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 27

Provenance

(Antiquarius srl, Rome); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Antiquarius srl

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no.9.