Esther
Esther c1885 margolari frantsesak Hugues Merle (1823 – 1881); amaren maitasunaren eszenetan espezializatu zena, haurtzaroko xalotasuna eta ondorio morala.
Hau erlijiosoa Erretratua Esterren liburuko ipuin biblikoan oinarritzen da; bertan, emakume judu gazte eder bat Ahasuero persiar erregearen erregina bihurtzen da, bere Vashti erregina erbesteratu ondoren; eta geroago Persiar Inperio osoan bere herriaren sarraskia saihesteko gai da.
Margolanak Ester zeta finez eta bitxi apainduz jantzita erakusten du, harri bitxiak eta urrea ezkerreko eskuarekin dekorazio berde argizko estalki bati eusten dion bitartean; atzealdean, berriz, erregea bere tronuan eserita ikusten dugu, 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, errubiak, diamonds and pearls.
Eskumuturrean errubiekin eta esmeraldekin apainduta dauden urrezko eskumuturrekoak daramatza, perlazko eskumuturrekoak eta errubizko eskumuturreko bakarra ezkerreko eskumuturrean; bere hatz gehienak, berriz, harri bitxiak barneratuta dituzten urrezko eraztunekin apainduta daude.
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Hugues Merle urtean jaio zen 1822 edo 1823 La Zonen, Frantzia eta urte inguruan 21 Parisera heldu zen, Frantzian, non pintura ikasi zuen Léon Cogniet margolari historiko eta erretratu frantsesaren eskutik (1794 – 1880).
Huguesen hasierako bizitzari buruz ezer gutxi ezagutzen den arren, uste da Parisera heldu baino lehen arte hezkuntzaren bat jaso zuela. 1843; because he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1847 with his piece Portrait de L’auteur and in 1848 he exhibited the piece Légende des Willis.
Denborak aurrera egin ahala Hugues erretratugile gisa ospea nabarmen hazi zen 1850eko hamarkadan; eta margolari arrakastatsu eta nabarmen gisa beren arte bildumak eraiki nahi zituzten arte-zale serioak erakarri ahal izan zituen..
One of these early collectors of art was the 4th Marquess of Hertford, Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870); nork bere apaindegiko bidalketa erosi zuen Reading the Bible in 1859.
1860ko hamarkadan zehar, Hugues bildumagileen bezeroen zerrenda Europako kontinenteko pertsonak ez ezik, baina baita bildumagile amerikarrak ere, hala nola, Baltimoreko William Waltersek The Scarlet Letter enkargatu zuena.