Year 1546 (1546) Artist Tintoretto Created 1548 Genre Christian art | Website Royal Collection Location Private collection Period Mannerism | |
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Tintoretto artwork The Supper at Emmaus, The Siege of Asola, Finding of the body of St Mark, Miracle of the Slave, St Roch in the Hospital | ||
Esther before Ahasuerus is a 1546-47 painting by Tintoretto showing a scene from the Book of Esther.
It is recorded in the inventory of the collection of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua in 1627 as hanging alongside The Muses in a passage in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. It was acquired from the Gonzagas by Charles I of Great Britain. On his execution it was valued at £120 and sold, before being reacquired by the royal family on the Restoration. It now hangs in Kensington Palace.
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