Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess

1690

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash. Squared in black chalk
Dimensions: 15-11/16 x 9-3/16 in. (39.9 x 23.3 cm)
Collection no.: 68.106.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess. Giovanni Battista Gaulli; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1968. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess — Giovanni Battista Gaulli. 1690.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash. Squared in black chalk. Dimensions: 15-11/16 x 9-3/16 in. (39.9 x 23.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1968.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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