Plague Victims Pleading for Help from Christ, the Virgin, and Saint Roch, 1567/1573

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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

Dimensions

overall: 28.9 x 16.3 cm (11 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.89

Artists / Makers

Lattanzio Gambara (artist) Brescian, c. 1530 - 1574

Image Use

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Inscription

at lower left in brown ink: Barocio; at lower right in brown ink: 22; verso, at lower right in graphite: 11

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

List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen

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).