Saint Roseline of Villeneuve

The coat-of-arms in the background of the present work are those of the Villeneuve family and the Saint can thus be identified as Saint Roseline of Villeneuve. Born into a noble family in Les Arcs in 1250, Saint Roseline chose to live according to the strict rules of the Chartreux order. She is sometimes confused with Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Saint Rosa of Viterbo, who also witnessed a similar miracle, in which the bread each was going to distribute to the poor was transformed into a bunch of roses.

The present picture seems to have been the model for a 19th-century print produced as a devotional image (illustated in B. Berthod and E. Hardouin Fugier, Dictionnaire iconographique des Saints, 1999, p. 36).