Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

St. Roch in the Desert, Stricken by the Plague

Antonio Gionima
1697-1732

St. Roch in the Desert, Stricken by the Plague

13 15/16 x 10 3/8 inches (354 x 264 mm)
Pen and brush and brown and gray ink, with brown, gray, and red wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk and charcoal, on paper.
1992.121

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso near center in pen and brown ink, "Gionima"; possibly illegible collector's mark in orange ink on verso.
Watermark: Three crescents (close to Heawood 866 and 867).
Associated names
Komor, Mathias, 1909-1984, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Italian Baroque Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Columbia, S.C. : Columbia Museum of Art, 1961, no. 41 (as Death of St. John the Baptist).
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department