Esther fainting before Ahasuerus. Etching by L.J. Le Lorrain after J.F. de Troy.

  • Troy, Jean-François de, 1679-1752.
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[1742]
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Bible. Apocrypha. The rest of Esther 15.7. Esther faints from fear of King Ahasuerus, whose mood is thereupon changed by God into a "spirit of ... mildness" (Apocrypha. Esther. 15.8). The marriage of the Jewish Esther to the Persian Ahasuerus prompted plans for an anti-semitic purge by the king's vizier, Haman

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[Rome], [1742]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 28 x 21.5 cm

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J.F. de Troy C. pinx J.L. le Lorrain scul. in Roma

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Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, tome 14, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1977, p. 39, no.4 ("Évanouissement d’Esther. Esther se pâme, appuyée contre une de ses servantes, tandis que le roi Assuérus s'efforce de la rassurer. Aux pieds de la reine est étendue sa seconde servante, complètement évanouie. Sous le tr. c. : 'J. B. de Troy, C. pinx. — J. L. Le Lorrain scul. in Roma.' H. 0 m 280xL. 0 m 215. Ch. Le Blanc, II, p. 528, no. 3.")

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