{"id":2130,"date":"2011-11-23T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:53:17","slug":"d15-angel-of-death-st-roch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d15-angel-of-death-st-roch\/","title":{"rendered":"D.15 (COPY) The Angel of God Appearing to St. Roch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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D.15 (COPY) The Angel of God Appearing to St. Roch<\/p><\/div>\n

1524<\/p>\n

Paris, Louvre, Inv. 10315.<\/p>\n

Fig.D.15a<\/a>
\nFig.D.15b<\/a> bw<\/p>\n

Pen and brown ink, point of a brush and grey brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, lightly squared in black chalk, 21.7 x 20.1; laid down; wm.?\u00a0 Inscribed on the back of the mount: d\u2019apr\u00e8s Rosso<\/em> [Pouncey].<\/p>\n

PROVENANCE: Saint-Morys.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 131-136, Bk. II, 247, D.19, III, Bk. III, Fig. 69, as a copy of a lost drawing by Rosso of early 1527.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1967, 298-299, n. 9, as a copy of a lost drawing by Rosso.<\/p>\n

Saint-Morys, 1987, II, inv. no. 10315, giving Morel d\u2019Arleaux\u2019s (843) attribution to the School of Florence.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1987, 22, 70, 71, under no. 7, as a copy after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Franklin, 1994, 155, 285, n. 122, as of uncertain date, and may have been done in France.<\/p>\n

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Under anonymous in the Louvre, this drawing, together with Louvre Inv. no. 10316 and Inv. no. 10317 (Fig.D.13 Copy<\/a>, and Fig.D.14B<\/a>) form a series illustrating scenes from the life of St. Roch, two of which are copied from lost drawings by Rosso, the third from Rosso\u2019s St. Roch Distributing His Inheritance to the Poor<\/em> in the Louvre (Fig.D.13<\/a>).\u00a0 All of these drawings are by the same Italian draughtsman, but not Pordenone, as inscriptions on two of the copies indicate.\u00a0 Fioco attributed the other two copies to Altobello Meloni.<\/p>\n

The lost drawing, like Rosso\u2019s autograph drawing in the Louvre, was probably executed in red chalk (but see comments related to D.14A), and was certainly done at the same time, most likely in the summer of 1524.\u00a0 As Louvre Inv. no. 10316 copies Rosso\u2019s original drawing very accurately, it may be assumed that Louvre Inv. no. 10315 is also an accurate copy, but in this case of a lost drawing by Rosso.\u00a0 Its size is almost exactly the same as the autograph drawing and the copy of it.\u00a0 The scrolls and disc that decorate the architecture immediately behind the raised arm of the wingless angel are similar to the decorative motifs on the sarcophagus of Rosso\u2019s Dead Christ<\/em> in Boston (Fig.P.18a<\/a>), done in 1525 or 1526.<\/p>\n

The drawing, which shows the saint bald and old and with a long beard, would seem to represent the “angel of God” announcing to St. Roch at the end of his life that God has granted him “what thou \u00a0now desirest” that “all good christian men who reverently prayed in the name of Jesu to the blessed Rocke might be delivered surely from the stoke of the pestilence. At this prayer so made, he expired and gave up the ghost,” as told in the Golden Legend<\/em> of Jacobus de Voragine, although it is possible but less likely that it represents the angel announcing to Roch his deliverance from the plague where, however, the Golden Legend<\/em> has him sleeping, as also indicated in the scene where an angel tells him he has been struck by the plague (see Voragine, V, 1900, 5, 9, 10-11, and Reau, III, 3, 1959, 1156, 1161).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1524 Paris, Louvre, Inv. 10315. Fig.D.15a Fig.D.15b bw Pen and brown ink, point of a brush and grey brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, lightly squared in black chalk, 21.7 x 20.1; laid down; wm.?\u00a0 Inscribed on the back of the mount: d\u2019apr\u00e8s Rosso [Pouncey]. PROVENANCE: Saint-Morys. LITERATURE: Carroll, 1964 (1976), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":820,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2130\/revisions\/10717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}