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The Banishment of Vashti 1556 - 1600
Pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening, over black chalk, on blue paper | 36.4 x 26.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906694
After Paolo Veronese (1528-88)
The Banishment of Vashti 1556 - 1600
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A drawing of a woman walking out of a classical building seen in steep foreshortening, a boy holding her hand, a man to her right holding a crown; a beggar with his dog in the foreground. A copy of Veronese’s painting of 1556 in the church of San Sebastiano, Venice. Stamped bottom left with the five-point star mark associated with the collector Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2886).
The subject was previously identified as Esther brought before Ahasuerus following the interpretation offered by Carlo Ridolfi (Le maravigile dell’arte, 1648, p.9). The painting has more recently been identified as depicting the Banishment of Vashti (see Madlyn Kahr, 'The Meaning of Veronese’s Paintings in the Church of San Sebastiano in Venice', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 33 (1970), pp. 235-247.
For a copy by the same hand of Veronese’s Coronation of Esther in San Sebastiano, see RCIN 906693.
Provenance
Nicholas Lanier (his five-pointed star, Lugt 2886); 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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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening, over black chalk, on blue paper
Measurements
36.4 x 26.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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Esther brought before Ahasuerus
