Georg (II), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen, Thuringia (by 1897–d. 1914); Bernhard (III), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen (1914–d. 1928); Georg, Prinz von Saxe-Meiningen, Heldbourg, Thuringia (1928–29; sold to Douglas); [R
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1961, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1964, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
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Length of fingerboard, nut to base: 17 1/8 in. (43.4 cm); Width of fingerboard at base: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm);Length of body: 17 1/4 in. (43.7 cm); Wdith of upper bouts: 9 in. (23 cm);Width of middle bouts: 6 7/8 in
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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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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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A pair of clappers could be played either with both hands or with just one. That this pair was played one-handed is indicated by the holes near the rounded ends, which show slight traces of wear caused by rubbing from an attached string
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