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From the Benedictine convent of Santa Cruz de la Serós, Jaca; Charles Stein(?), Paris; Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., Castle Craig(sold 1902); Carmichael sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London(May 12–13, 1902, no
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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
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Signed (lower left): PR; inscribed (verso, lower left) 17/35b.
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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
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Pater, born in Valenciennes, was apprenticed to a local painter in 1706. A contemporary would later report that his father sent him to Paris to study with Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721): probably the two painters left Valenciennes together in late 1709 or 1710
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For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
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