Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo is a 1624 painting by Anthony van Dyck, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The painting depicts Saint Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo, interceding for the city during an outbreak of the plague. In the background can be seen the port of Palermo and Monte Pellegrino.
The painting was one of several of Saint Rosalia produced in Palermo by van Dyck in the late summer of 1624, when the city was quarantined.
The work is not currently (2018) on view at the Metropolitan.
The piece was bought or commissioned by Antonio Ruffo, a Sicilian nobleman and art collector, who later also owned Aristotle with a Bust of Homer by Rembrandt, which he commissioned in 1653. In recent years, using the technique of radiography based on neutron emission, it has been discovered that for this particular painting, van Dyck re-used a canvas which had previously borne a sketch for a self-portrait.
The saint's remains (she died around 1160) were said to have been found on Mount Pellegrino on 15 July 1624, the same year as the painting was executed.
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