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A man and woman, both with light skin, stand near a column under a pointed arch in a darkened, stone church in this vertical painting. To our right, the pair is lit only by the candle the man holds in his left hand. He stands with his back to us, and his face, almost in profile, is mostly lost in shadow. He has a pronounced bulbous, hooked nose, and his full lower lip projects past his beard. His tall cap is split down the sides, and he wears a red cloak lined with white fur. He leans toward the woman and holds her left hand in his right, closer to us. The candlelight falls on her pale,…

Esther and Mordecai

Hendrick van Steenwijk the Younger (Flemish, c. 1580 - 1649)

1616 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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