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Esther crowned by Ahasuerus 1556 - 1600
Pen and ink, brown wash and white heightening over black chalk on blue paper | 28.6 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906693
After Paolo Veronese (1528-88)
Esther crowned by Ahasuerus 1556 - 1600
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A drawing of Esther kneeling on the steps before King Ahasuerus, as he places a crown on her head. Standing in armour in the foreground is Ahasuerus's minister Haman. A copy after Veronese’s painting of 1556 in the church of San Sebastiano, Venice, dated 1556. Stamped bottom left with the five-point star mark associated with the collector Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2886); above, in an eighteenth-century hand: ‘P. Veronese.’
A copy by the same hand of Veronese's Banishment of Vashti in San Sebastiano is at RCIN 906694.
Provenance
From the collection of Nicholas Lanier (?his five-pointed star, Lugt 2886); thus probably acquired by Charles II.
Listed in George III's Inventory A, c.1800, p. 59, in an album 'Titiano Paolo Veronese e Scuola Veneziana', among '29 to 42. Of Paolo Veronese and Carlo Cagliari'. -
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Pen and ink, brown wash and white heightening over black chalk on blue paper
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28.6 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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