Esther before Ahasuerus
1655/1660
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 17.3 x 17.2 cm (6 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1991.217.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Benesch 1973, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
B.F. Nicholson (sold, Sotheby's, London, March 23, 1971, no. 90); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1971; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, beginning with Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahama City; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971, and Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.
1974
Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 69.
1976
Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, (not in catalogue -- added late?).
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
1972
Christopher White, "The Hammer Collection: Drawings," Apollo, vol. 95 (June, 1972), pp.458-60, fig. 5.
1973
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): undesc
Watermarks
Arms of Amsterdam
Wikidata ID
Q64620318