# Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

- By: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336489)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP832663.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)