Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
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Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken is an early religious painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David
. He painted it in 1780 during his stay at the Villa Medici
in Rome after winning first prize for painting in the Prix de Rome
(before his Portrait of count Stanislas Potocki
) and exhibited it at the 1781 Paris Salon
on his return to France. Its influences include Caravaggio
, Poussin
, Guercino and Lebrun
. It shows Saint Roch interceding to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child for the plague sufferers shown around him.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
. He painted it in 1780 during his stay at the Villa Medici
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
in Rome after winning first prize for painting in the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
(before his Portrait of count Stanislas Potocki
Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
The Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki is a 1780 equestrian portrait of the Polish patron, politician and writer Stanisław Kostka Potocki by the French painter Jacques-Louis David...
) and exhibited it at the 1781 Paris Salon
Paris Salon
The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...
on his return to France. Its influences include Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
, Poussin
Poussin
Poussin refers to:*Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian mathematician*Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian geologist and mineralogist, father of Charles Jean*Nicolas Poussin , French painter...
, Guercino and Lebrun
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun , a French painter and art theorist, became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.-Biography:-Early life and training:...
. It shows Saint Roch interceding to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child for the plague sufferers shown around him.
External links
- http://www.artprofessor.com/artists/jacques-louis-david.php
- Dorothy Johnson, Jacques-Louis David, page 73