''Saint Rosalia Interceding for the City of Palermo'' is an oil on canvas painting of Saint Rosalia by

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...

, now in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in

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, which acquired it at auction at

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in London on 7 December 1960. It is sometimes dated to 1629 when the artist was back in

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and sometimes to 1624-1625 whilst the artist was quarantined in

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, Sicily. The work is said to have been a gift from

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to the Marquis de Cossart d'Espies of the Chateau d'Omercourt. It is next recorded in 1939, by which time it belonged to the Baron de Coriolis. A copy after the autograph version is now in the Capella dei Santi Pietro e Paolo dell'Infermeria dei Sacerdoti in Palermo

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Rosalia Interceding for the City of Palermo 1625 paintings category:1629 paintings Paintings of Saint Rosalia Religious paintings by Anthony van Dyck Paintings in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce Epidemics in art