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Unknown Maker, French

Saint Roch
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Description

Maker

Unknown Maker, French

Culture

French

Title

Saint Roch

Year

ca. 1500

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

wood, paint

Dimensions

Height: 105.4 cm (41 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

21.398

Type

Provenance

Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1921.
Source, handwritten on Durlacher invoice, October 19, 1921, RISD Archives, Director's correspondence: "Marx Frères" [Paris]
Sold to Rhode Island School of Design, 1921.

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 17: Variance

This issue complements the RISD Museum exhibition Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability, on view through October 9, 2022.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

Saint Roch is shown here exposing a plague blister on his leg. He is associated with the bubonic plague, a disease that is estimated to have killed up to one third of the European population in the 1300s. Said to have been born in France about 200 years before this work was made, Saint Roch traveled to Rome to care for plague victims. In Rome he was stricken by the disease and saved by a dog who brought him bread. Lifelike painted sculptures portraying Saint Roch were made for display in churches throughout Western Europe.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, French
Saint Roch, ca. 1500
Wood with polychromy (colored paint)
Height: 105.4 cm (41 1/2 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund 21.398

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