Large Polychrome Figure St. Roch
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High 146cm.
17th Century, France
Polychrome wood
Large Polychrome Figure St. Roch, carved in almost full round, depicted standing, Saint Roch with curly hair, beard and draped mantle decorated with shells St. Jacques on cross-bees over a tunic, in his left hand holding a staff, with a bag on his right shoulder, lifting his mantle and tunic to show the plague wound on his left thigh, and wearing a wide-brimmed hat emblazoned with the same banner as the mantle, flanked by a dog to his left. Several polychrome layers. Original polychrome
