drawing
- Museum number
- 1964,0613.3
- Description
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St Roch fed by a dog: seated on the ground, a figure on horseback and a house amongst trees beyond
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (partly discoloured), over black chalk, on buff prepared paper
- Production date
- 1576 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 351 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Possibly related to a processional banner for the church of Mozambano commissioned in June 1576 mentioned in the artist's account book, L. Puppi (ed.), 'Paolo Farinati Giornale (1573-1606), Florence, 1968, p. 15. The artist also received a commission from the 'Compagnia di la Madona' in Casaleone in August 1594 (ibid p. 131) to paint a banner with Roch and Sebastian together. The reclining pose derived from Michelangelo's 'Adam' would be difficult to combine with a standing Sebastian and it is more likely intended as a design for a single figure as in the Mozambano banner.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964, BM, Recent Acquisitions, no.9
2003-4 Dec-April, BM, NACF exhibition
- Acquisition date
- 1964
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1964,0613.3
