This small, jewel-like devotional painting was made as a gift for Ingres’s friend Louise Marcotte, who introduced the artist to Delphine Ramel, whom he married in 1852. The Raphaelesque composition is based on one Ingres first painted in 1841 for the future czar Alexander II, which includes the two patron saints of Russia, Alexander Nevsky and Nicholas (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). For this version, Ingres replaced the Russian saints with two French ones. He would go on to paint four more variants, as well as, in 1855, a watercolor for Madame Ingres herself (Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass.).

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　　赏析：前景的窗台为祭坛，两旁长明的铜灯盏火芯燃烧，中间供奉着代表耶稣圣体的圣餐饼，上面的花纹是耶稣受难十字架及 “耶稣，人类的救世主”的拉丁语首字母IHS。圣母身旁有两个法国的保护圣人相伴，右侧是教会封圣的路易九世。