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| GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIAZZETTA (Ravà 1681-1754 Venice)
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| Saint Roch (Recto and verso)
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black lead
inscription lower right in pen and brown ink "3", and in pen and black ink, upper centre "Giambatista Piazzetta Venezº" numbered on the verso, upper left, "AA 6768"
161 x 130 mm
PROVENANCE
The reliable Venetian collector (Lugt 3005 c-d), his attribution
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Hugh No. Squire
Sale, Sothebys 11 December 1975, lot 74.
Massimo Brooks
EXHIBITIONS
Venice 1966 (70)
LITERATURE
George Knox, Piazzetta, A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983, pp. 23-24, ill. P. 24, fig. 5.
Four other known studies exist for this composition but so far no painting of the subject has been found. The inscription identifies the drawing as from the collection of an important Venetian collector of the eighteenth century once thought to be Anton Maria Zanetti, named “the reliable Venetian collector” for the reliability of his attributions. Other drawings inscribed in the same way can be found in the Pierpont Morgan Library , and in private collections in London , depicting Tobias and the Angel, and in Turin , depicting Samson and Delilah. In both of these latter sheets there appears a similar dog to that of Saint Roch in our sheet.
Saint Roch is the patron saint of the sick, specifically of plague victims, and his remains were taken to Venice in 1485. The Scuola di S. Rocco was later founded there, a confraternity that cared for the sick under the saint’s patronage. It is possible that this drawing is a design for the confraternity’s gonfalone. Piazzetta himself was a member of another Venetian confraternity, that of Venetian painters, from 1711.
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