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The Virgin Adoring the Host
1852 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
For Corpus Christi
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A small white Host stands on a gold chalice between two lit candles, and the Virgin, hands joined, lowers her eyes to Him. Our Lady, who bore Him, bows to Him here under the appearance of bread. The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes her behind the altar, flanked by two saints, in homage to Raphael's intimate devotional paintings; the saints go unnamed. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted it in Paris in 1852, Gary Tinterow writes, not on commission but as a gift to Louise Marcotte, who, the Met notes, had introduced him to Delphine Ramel, the woman he married that year. The candles burn. She has not looked up.
Sources: Composition (Virgin behind altar, flanked by two saints, adoring the Host) and homage to Raphael's early-1500s intimate devotional painting tradition · Gary Tinterow, catalogue entry, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920 (Met, 2007), via pubhist.com · David J. Conrad, 'The Virgin Adoring the Host', St Aidan Parish, Livonia. · Sotheby's, 19th Century European Art, sale N09143 (2014), lot 69, 'The Virgin with the Sleeping Infant Jesus', catalogue note.