Saint Roch is a tempera on canvas painting byParmigianino, executedc. 1528, now in a private collection inParma. It measures 27.8 by 21.5 cm. A preparatory study for the work survives in theBonnat Museum inBayonne (n. 699). Like the artist'sSaint Roch with a Donor (1527), its elongated figures are typical of works produced during his stay inBologna after escaping theSack of Rome.
Previously in the Baiardi collection, the work is probably the "canvas with a Saint Roch sketched in colour 0.7 high 0.5 high by Parmigianino" recorded in the 1560-1566 Baiardi collection inventory. Those measurements equate to about 31.7 cm by 21.6 cm - it is now smaller due to warping visible to the naked eye. It is a fragment of a larger composition, perhaps one of the two "guazzi" described in Vasari'sLives of the Artists as commissioned inBologna from "Maestro Luca di Leuti" - the other is probablyHoly Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Museo di Capodimonte).[1]
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