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,…
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Esther and Mordecai

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

1616

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 37 × 23.7 cm (14 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.) ; framed: 51.44 × 38.42 × 8.89 cm (20 1/4 × 15 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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