Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus, Claude Lorrain, 1658

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Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus, 1658, Pen and brown ink; brown wash over black chalk; heightened with white, 11 13/16 x 17 1/2 in. (30 x cm), Drawings, Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome), This magnificent compositional study, which came to light in the late 1980s, stands out in Claude's graphic oeuvre for its high degree of finish and detail. The biblical subject is set in an invented landscape animated by a diffuse naturalistic light

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