Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), 1658
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Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

1658

Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
Classification
Drawings
Dimensions
11 13/16 x 17 1/2 in. (30 x 44.4 cm)
Culture
French
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art