Esther
Esther c1885 by French Painter 휴그 멀 (1823 – 1881); 모성애 장면 전문, 어린 시절의 순수함과 도덕적 결과.
이것 종교적인 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, rubies, 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.
이것은 공개 도메인 이미지의 리마스터링된 디지털 아트 올드 마스터 복제입니다. Boucher는 Guay의 작품으로 일련의 그림을 그리고 Madame de Pompadour가 조각하여 호의를 받는 궁정에게 잘 묶인 책으로 배포했습니다..
아래 정보는 Wikipedia.org 과 Rehs.com
Hugues Merle는 1822 또는 1823 라존에서, 프랑스와 대략 21 파리에 도착, 프랑스 역사 및 초상화 화가 Léon Cogniet 밑에서 그림을 공부한 프랑스 (1794 – 1880).
위그의 초기 생애에 대해서는 알려진 바가 거의 없지만, 1843; 파리 살롱에서 전시를 시작했기 때문에 1847 그의 작품인 Portrait de L'auteur와 1848 그는 Légende des Willis 작품을 전시했습니다..
시간이 지남에 따라 초상화가로서의 위그의 명성은 1850년대에 크게 커졌습니다.; 그리고 성공적이고 저명한 화가로서 그는 자신의 예술 컬렉션을 구축하려는 진지한 예술 애호가를 끌어들일 수 있었습니다..
이 초기 예술 수집가 중 한 명은 Hertford의 4th Marquess였습니다., 리차드 시모어-콘웨이 (1800-1870); 그의 살롱 작품을 구입한 사람 1859.
1860년대, Hugues 고객 수집가 목록에는 유럽 대륙의 개인뿐만 아니라, 미국 수집가들도, The Scarlet Letter를 의뢰한 볼티모어의 William Walters와 같은.
