Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (London)

Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels is a c.1625 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, one of five surviving works showing the saint which he produced whilst he was quarantined in Palermo, Sicily due to a plague.[1] It is now in the Wellington Collection at Apsley House in London.[2]

In the painting Saint Rosalia intercedes for the plague-stricken. Its composition is very similar to two other 1624 works, one still in Palermo[3] and the other in the Menil Collection. All three show the influence of Pietro Novelli, then also in the city.[4]

History

It appeared in the "passage to the king's pew" in Madrid's Palacio Real according to the 1772 inventory, moving to "the prince's dressing room" by 1776, where it still was in 1789. Looted by Joseph Bonaparte, it was found in his abandoned carriage at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813 by the Duke of Wellington, to whom it was formally granted three years later by Ferdinand VII[5]

Exhibition

It was loaned to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2011-2012 for display with the other four Saint Rosalia works.[6]

References
  1. Ruth Hazard (19 December 2011). "Saint Rosalia paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck to be reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery". Culture24. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. "Saint Rosalie Crowned with Roses by Two Angels". ArtUK.
  3. Sterling, Charles (1939). "'Van Dyck's Paintings of St. Rosalie'". 74 (431). Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. pp. 52–55 and 58–63. JSTOR 867652.
  4. "Santa Rosalia Incoronata dagli Angeli" (in Italian). arte.it.
  5. Salomon, Xavier F. (2012). Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625 : Painting and the Plague. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-8836621729.
  6. "Art after death: Van Dyck's Painting and the Plague – in pictures". Guardian. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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