Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)
Date: 1658
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
Dimensions: 11 13/16 x 17 1/2 in. (30 x 44.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997
Accession no.: 1997.156

The Ford
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
possibly 1636 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014715
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1639 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014716
Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
possibly 1646–47 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014717
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1643 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014718