One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating the scene in which Esther pleads with King Ahasuerus to save the lives of the Jewish people. Woven in the workshop of Pierre-François Cozette after a design by Jean -François de Troy. One of seven panels in the Royal Collection. A number of sets of this series were woven at the Gobelins between 1738 and 1794. The Windsor tapestries were among the last to be put on the looms. They incorporate the new borders designed by M. Jacques in 1773. Completed by 1789, they remained in store up until July 1797 when they were sold during the revolutionary sales to the citoyen Chapeaurouge, agent of the Commission des Subsistances in Hamburg. They next reappear in Paris in May 1825 when Sir Charles Long bought them for George IV.