The Virgin Adoring the Host
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
15 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (40.3 x 32.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lila and Herman Shickman, 2005
Accession Number
2005.186
Tags
SaintsAltarsMenVirgin Mary
About the Artist
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1780–1867
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne region of southern France, into a family with deep artistic and musical connections — his father was a painter, sculptor, and musician. He showed exceptional promise from childhood, enrolling at the Académie Royale in Toulouse where he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan, the landscape painter Je...