JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. 1780-1867

100 THE VIRGIN ADORING THE EUCHARIST. 1841

Oil on canvas. 116 X 84 cm. Inv. No 2761 Signed lower left: A.J.Ingres pinx Dated lower right: Rome 1841

The picture was painted in 1841 to the order of the future Russian emperor Alexander II. The subject goes back to Ingres's Virgin in The Vow of Louis XIII (1824). There are numerous variants. The one very similar to the present picture is in The Louvre (1854; No 20088). The picture was engraved with a burin by A. Reveil.

Provenance: 1841—45 The Collection of Hereditary Prince Alexander Nikolayevich, St Petersburg; 1845— 1919 The Academy of Arts Museum, St Petersburg — Petrograd; 1919—30 The Hermitage, Leningrad; since 1930 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibitions: 1842 St Petersburg; 1861 St Petersburg; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 62; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 62 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 87; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 149; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 197; Ch. Lenormant, " Vierge adorant I'Eucharistie, tableau de M.Ingres", L 'Artiste, 1841, p. 194; J. Varnier, "De la Madone exe-cutee pour Le Grand Due Heritier de toutes les Russies par M. Ingres", L'Artiste, 1841, p. 1; А. Сомов, Картинная галерея Императорской Академии художеств, part 2: Каталог произведений иностранной живописи, St Petersburg, 1874, No 639; Dussieux 1856, p. 430; M. Далькевич, Галерея графа ff. A. Кушелева-Безбородко. Императорская Академия художеств, St Petersburg, s.a. [late 1880s], 4, p. 32, ill.; Boyer d'Agen, Ingres d'apres une correspondance inedite, Paris, 1909, p. 285; H. Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie et son ceuvre, Paris, 1911, p. 344; Reau 1929, No 135; Sterling 1957, p. 74; G. Wildenstein, Ingres, London, 1959, p. 212, No 234, ill. 179

100 THE VIRGIN ADORING THE EUCHARIST. 1841