Esther before Ahasuerus, late 16th century

Not on View

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 22.86 × 15.88 cm (9 × 6 1/4 in.)

2022.75.4

Giovanni Guerra (artist) Roman, 1544 - 1618

on verso in brown ink: a seventeen-line letter(?); by later hand, lower center in graphite: Chapter 2 verse 17; B.698414

verso in blue ink: MK [circled] (Lugt 1882a)

(Mathias Komor, New York, 1909 - 1984, Lugt 1882a). William Rudolf, Hampden, CT; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Rudolf, William