About the Artwork
Esther Before Ahasuerus
late 17th century
Louis Chéron
1660-1725
French
Unknown
Pen and ink and watercolor on buff laid paper
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 32 1/16 inches (56 × 81.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James E. Scripps
94.3SDR157
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, center right: No 24 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, lower center: N7 [crossed out with pencil] Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper left corner: Anonymous-- [underscored] Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower right: [indecipherable] Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower center: Hd. | No. 7 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower left corner: Lanfranco - 486 - [underscored] Inscribed, in pen and light black or dark brown ink, on mount, verso, lower left corner: Venta Hubert B. 24 de Mayo 1876. | EMR.
Stamp, in purple ink, lower left, verso: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Provenance
1976, Hubert collection (Paris, France). J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 377 (as by Lanfranco)
1894, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1894-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 318-319, no. A67.
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attributed to Louis Chéron, Esther Before Ahasuerus, late 17th century, pen and ink and watercolor on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR157.
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