This altarpiece depicts Saint Roch (ca. 1348–1376/79), known as a plague saint for his miracles in curing the sick. He became a popular figure in art following the Black Death in the fourteenth century and the Italian plague outbreak of 1477–79
Malerei der Renaissance im Briefwechsel von Giovanni Morelli und Jean Paul Richter,“ Baden-Baden
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
Baden-Baden: Holle Verlag, 1980. p. 195. Schiller, Gertrud.
the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1889–d. 1891; sent to him by the artist on September 28, 1889); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1891–95; consigned by June 1895 to Lucien Moline (Galerie Laffitte), Paris; sold with six other paintings for fl
Alfred Bader. Künstler-Tragik: Karl Stauffer, Vincent van Gogh.
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met (Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader. Ed.
Inscription: Signed and dated (verso, left, in black paint): Juan Gris / ceret 10-13 [now concealed by relining; visible in infrared transmitted light; signature reproduced on relining]
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
, 1933 Object Number: 33.60 Sir George Holford ; Senator Heinrich Gruenwald , Baden-Baden
Istanbul, 1877–Istanbul, 1947
Tophane Kabataş Neighborhood, ca. 1930s; private collection), Léopold Lévy’s Çağla badem
Baden-Baden: Holle Verlag, 1965. p. 77, ill. fig. 28, ill. flipped.
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Collection of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646); until 1875, collection of the Dukes of Marlborough; by 1900, collection of Sir Arthur Evans; acquired in 1941, purchased from the estate of Sir Arthur Evans
trepublikanischer und augusteischer Zeit. pp. 67, n. 10, 68, n. 17, 79, n. 78, pl. 72.3, Baden-Baden
