St Roch

Title

St Roch

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Koepplin 2009, 8]

A full-length representation of St Roch whose aid was frequently invoked with such painted plague votives. He is depicted here in a landscape setting, showing his right leg scarred with the plague, but is otherwise healthy.

[cda 2020]

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Koepplin 2009, 7]

Production dates: about 1515
about 1518-1520

Production dates

about 1515	[Koepplin 2009, 7]
about 1518-1520	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 92, No. 110D]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 84 x 24 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 84 x 24 cm
[Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/417764; accessed 20.05.2020]

Owner: Geschichtsverein Torgau
Repository: Stadt- und Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Torgau
Location: Torgau

CDA ID: DE_SKMT-Lost_L-VI-1g40
FR (1978) Nr.: FR110D
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SKMT-Lost_L-VI-1g40/

Connected Works

Provenance

in the church in the Franciscan monastery (probably created for this church; in 1764 described as part of an altarpiece there)
after 1873 the property of the Altertumsverein in Torgau and was then accessioned into Torgau museum collection, Schloss Hartenfels (catalogues from 1896 and 1931)
1945 stolen
1.-2.11.1979 Galerie Koller, Zurich, auction 42/2, No. 5095 A und B (wing panel; split)
(probably) private collection, Switzerland [1]
[1] [Lost Art database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/417764; accessed 20.05.2020]
[Koepplin 2009, 4, 7]
since 1979 in the Sammlung der Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (SSKK) Winterthur (Switzerland)
gifted by the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (SKKG) to the Geschichtsverein in Torgau, June 2022
[Torgauer Zeitung online, accessed 15.07.2022])

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Koepplin 2009 A

Author	Dieter Koepplin
Title	Der heilige Nikolaus, die Pestheiligen Sebastian und Rochus und der mit Wasser übergossene Dulder Hiob. Ein vorreformatorischer Cranach-Altar aus der Franziskanerkirche zu Torgau
Series	Kleine Schriften des Torgauer Geschichtsvereins
Volume	20
Place of Publication	Torgau
Year of Publication	2009

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Research History / Discussion

The panel depicting St Roch was once the right wing of a triptych. It is documented that when the altarpiece was open a depiction of St Sebastian was visible on the left wing and St Roche on the right (the reverse of St Nicholas). These saints, who were invoked against the plague, flanked the central panel showing St Jerome being tempted by the devil. His wife pours water over the naked saint who is covered in bruises, while he gives some money to three musicians.

[Koepplin 2009, 12-16, 33]

St Roch, about 1515

Images

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