Esther
Esther c1885 by French Painter Hugues Merle (1823 – 1881); chì si spicializava in scene di affettu maternu, innocenza di a zitiddina è cunsequenze murali.
Questu religious portrait is based on the Biblical tale from the book of Esther; in which a beautiful young Jewish woman becomes Queen to the Persian King Ahasuerus, after he banishes his queen Vashti; and later is able to avert the slaughter of her people throughout the Persian Empire.
The painting shows Esther in beautiful attire of fine silks and adorned jewels, precious stones and gold as she holds onto a decorative light green drape with her left hand; while in the background we see the king seated on his throne, finely dressed and adorned with jewels on his crown and chest plate, with a guard holding a spear to his right.
Esther is wearing a gold band around her long black hair, that is partially covered by a sheer white silk scarf that loops across the lower portion of her neck and around her back.
Esther’s dress which is composed of three different materials, starts with a red top portion that in embellished gold squares that have pearls at each corner and emeralds at the center of each square surrounded by another gold square rotated 90 degrees, creating and eye like appearance.
Then around her waist is a gold like sash that is overlaid with a bright green geometric design; and this transitions to the green full length portion of the dress.
She is then covered in a light gold tone wrap that has dark gold tone tassels along the edges, with a wide dark band that is sectioned into squares that have alternate clusters of four pearls, round rubies and emeralds.
Around her neck is a large loop necklace, a ruby necklace from which a gold and ruby amulet hands along with blue opal connected to silver wing like elements.
Around her upper arms of the short sleeve dress she is wearing are wide band arm bracelets made of gold with alternating squares of rubies and diamonds, that match the triangular square earrings she wearing comprised of gold, emeralds, rubini, diamonds and pearls.
On her wrist she is wearing gold bracelets that are embellished with rubies and emeralds, pearl bracelets and a single ruby bracelet on her left wrist; while most of her fingers are adorned with gold rings that have precious stones embedded in them.
Questa hè una ripruduzzione di l'antichi maestri d'arte digitale rimasterizzata di una maghjina di duminiu publicu chì hè dispunibule cum'è a stampa su tela in linea.
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Hugues Merle hè natu in 1822 o 1823 in La Zona, Francia è intornu à l'età di 21 ghjuntu in Parigi, Francia induve hà studiatu pittura cù u pittore storicu è di ritratti francese Léon Cogniet (1794 – 1880).
Bien qu'on sache peu de choses sur la vie d'Hugues, on suppose qu'il a reçu un certain degré d'éducation artistique avant d'arriver à Paris en 1843; perchè cuminciò à esporre à u Salone di Parigi in 1847 cù a so pezza Portrait de L’auteur è in 1848 espose l'opera Légende des Willis.
Quandu u tempu passava, a reputazione di Hugues cum'è ritrattista hà cresciutu assai durante l'anni 1850; è cum'è un pittore di successu è prominente, hà sappiutu attirà seri amanti di l'arti chì cercanu di custruisce e so cullezzione d'arte..
One of these early collectors of art was the 4th Marquess of Hertford, Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870); chì hà acquistatu a so sottumissione di salone Reading the Bible in 1859.
Duranti l'anni 1860, Hugues client list of collectors included not only individuals from the European continent, ma ancu i cullezzione americani, cum'è William Walters di Baltimore chì hà cumandatu The Scarlet Letter.