Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (Houston)

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 Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which bought it in 1968.^[2] It was loaned from there in 2011-2012 to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.^[3]

Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (c. 1625) by Anthony van Dyck

It shows the influence of Pietro Novelli, then also in the city,^[4] whilst its composition is very similar to two other 1624 works, one now in the Wellington Collection at Apsley House in London^[5][6] and the other still in Palermo.

See also

• List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck

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. Salomon, Xavier F. (2012). Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625 : Painting and the Plague. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa. pp. 98–101. ISBN 978-8836621729.
3. "Art after death: Van Dyck's Painting and the Plague – in pictures". Guardian. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
4. "Santa Rosalia Incoronata dagli Angeli" (in Italian). arte.it.
5. "Saint Rosalie Crowned with Roses by Two Angels". ArtUK.
6. Sterling, Charles (1939). "'Van Dyck's Paintings of St. Rosalie'". Vol. 74, no. 431. Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. pp. 52–55 and 58–63. JSTOR 867652.