Esther
Esther c1885 by French Painter Hugues Merle (1823 – 1881); déi sech op Szene vu maternal Häerzen verbonnen spezialiséiert, Kandheet Onschold a moralesch Konsequenz.
Dëst reliéis 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.
Dëst ass eng remastered digital Konscht al Master Reproduktioun vun engem Public Domain Bild dat als verfügbar ass Leinwandprint online.
Déi ënnescht Informatioun ass ofgeleet vu Wikipedia.org an Rehs.com
Den Hugues Merle gouf gebuer 1822 oder 1823 an der La Zone, Frankräich a ronderëm den Alter vun 21 zu Paräis ukomm, Frankräich wou hien Molerei studéiert huet ënner dem franséischen Geschichts- a Porträtmoler Léon Cogniet (1794 – 1880).
Och wa wéineg iwwer den Hugues fréie Liewen bekannt ass, gëtt ugeholl datt hien e gewësse Grad vu Konschtausbildung kritt huet ier hien zu Paräis ukomm ass. 1843; well hien ugefaang huet am Salon zu Paräis auszestellen 1847 with his piece Portrait de L’auteur and in 1848 hien huet d'Stéck Légende des Willis ausgestallt.
Wéi d'Zäit weidergaang ass Hugues Ruff als Portraitist erheblech an den 1850er gewuess; an als erfollegräich a prominent Moler konnt hien sérieux Konschtliebhaber unzéien, déi gesicht hunn hir Konschtkollektiounen opzebauen.
Ee vun dëse fréie Sammler vun der Konscht war déi 4. Marquess vun Hertford, Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870); deen seng Salon Soumissioun kaaft huet Bibel liesen an 1859.
Während den 1860er Joren, Hugues client list of collectors included not only individuals from the European continent, awer och amerikanesch Sammler, wéi de William Walters vu Baltimore, deen The Scarlet Letter opgestallt huet.