Esther
Esther c1885 by French Painter Hugues Merle (1823 – 1881); die sich auf Szenen mütterlicher Zuneigung spezialisiert haben, kindliche Unschuld und moralische Konsequenz.
Diese religiös 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 Grad, 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, Rubine, 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.
Dies ist eine remasterte digitale Kunst-Reproduktion alter Meister eines gemeinfreien Bildes, das als verfügbar ist Leinwanddruck online.
Die folgenden Informationen stammen von Wikipedia.org und Rehs. com
Hugues Merle wurde geboren in 1822 oder 1823 in La Sône, Frankreich und ungefähr im Alter von 21 in Paris angekommen, Frankreich, wo er Malerei bei dem französischen Historien- und Porträtmaler Léon Cogniet studierte (1794 – 1880).
Obwohl wenig über Hugues frühes Leben bekannt ist, wird angenommen, dass er vor seiner Ankunft in Paris einen gewissen Grad an Kunstausbildung erhielt 1843; weil er begann, im Pariser Salon auszustellen 1847 mit seinem Stück Portrait de L’auteur und in 1848 er stellte das Stück Légende des Willis aus.
Im Laufe der Zeit wuchs Hugues Ruf als Porträtmaler in den 1850er Jahren erheblich; und als erfolgreicher und prominenter Maler konnte er ernsthafte Kunstliebhaber anziehen, die ihre Kunstsammlungen aufbauen wollten.
One of these early collectors of art was the 4th Marquess of Hertford, Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870); der seine Salon-Einreichung Reading the Bible in gekauft hat 1859.
In den 1860er Jahren, Hugues client list of collectors included not only individuals from the European continent, aber auch amerikanische Sammler, wie William Walters aus Baltimore, der The Scarlet Letter in Auftrag gab.