Saint Roch Interceding on Behalf of Plague Victims

1567/1573

Lattanzio Gambara

Associated Names
Lattanzio Gambara

Artist, Brescian, c. 1530 - 1574

This is a drawing featuring a gathering under a figure in the clouds. The central figure is ascending on a cloud with attendants. Below, a crowd of individuals is gathered, looking upwards. The scene includes architectural elements and has a dramatic contrast of white highlights on brownish paper. The figures are detailed with shadows and lines in flowing robes, typical of the Renaissance period.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache on paper washed brown

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.6 x 23.6 cm (15 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.111.90

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Conrad M. Metz (Lugt 598a); E. Parsons & Sons, London, by 1947, as "Lombard School circa 1500. The Ascension of Our Lord" [as per Hugo Chapman]; (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 14 October 1964, no. 178, as "Italienischer Meister"). 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

1965

  • Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart, 1965-1966, no. 11.

1977

  • Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 36, no. 13.

1979

  • Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, 1979, no. 27.

1995

  • Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 10.

1996

  • Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 10.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 7.

Bibliography

1979

  • Di Giampaolo, Mario. Review of G. Vezzoli and P. Virgilio Begni Redona, Lattanzio Gambara, pittore. _Prospettiva_18 (July 1979): 58.

1980

  • Bora, Giulio. I disegni lombardi e genovesi del Cinquecento. Treviso, 1980: 64, under no. 73.

1986

  • Disegni lombardi del Cinque e Seicento della Pinacoteca di Brera e dell'Arcivescovado di Milano. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1986: 100, under no. 34 (entry by Sandra Sicoli).

1991

  • Tanzi, Marco. Lattanzio Gambara nel Duomo di Parma. Turin, 1991: 30, fig. 15.

Watermarks

Crossbow in a circle (similar to Briquet 746)

Wikidata ID

Q64592677

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