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Esther will be adorned with a royal robe
Esther's dress
Lost Art-ID
582229
Artist / Creator
Laeff, Leendert de
Birth
1631 (um)
First mentioned
1687
Artist / Creator
Lairesse, Gerard de (frühere Zuschreibung)
Birth
1641.09.11, Lüttich
Death
(vor) 1711.07.28, Amsterdam
Place of activity
Lüttich; Utrecht; Amsterdam; Den Haag
Title
Esther will be adorned with a royal robe
Additional title
Esther's dress
Dating
1630-1681
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel [?] / painted
Height
54.50 cm
Width
44.50 cm
Inventory number
1266770 (Fichescollectie Cornelis Hofstede de Groot)
Description
signed L. de Lae (f); Esther is depicted in a bright royal robe, seated, left of the centre of the picture. She is surrounded by many diners: one adorns her neck with a pearl necklace, another, with her back to the observer in the foreground, brings her a dark-coloured garment. On Esther's left a playing white dog and various valuables can be seen on the floor. In the right half of the background, part of a magnificent courtyard can be seen.
Pendant to "Esther is brought to Ahasver / Queen of Saba and Solomon".
Literature: Bredius, Abraham, De Schilder Leenert de Laeff, in: Oud Holland 1916, Bd. 34 / 1, S. 154-157
Provenance
Castle Udenhout near Tilburg (until 1916); presumably auction G. Schooneveldt, (05.02.1918) and / or art trade J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam (before 1937); from 1937 at the latest collection Baron Ernest de Goldwurm-Verdor, Amsterdam / Brussels (deposited in the apartment of Jean Goldwurm, Baron's brother, in Brussels, 155 rue de la Loi "Residence Palace", from there probably confiscated by the German military administration on 17 May 1940); probably private collection, Brussels (1966)
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