王后以斯帖走近亚哈随鲁宫 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	王后以斯帖走近亚哈随鲁宫
品名（英）	Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
入馆年号	1997年，1997.156
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)【1604 至 1682】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1658
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	11 13/16 x 17 1/2 英寸 (30 x 44.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这项伟大的构图研究于20世纪80年代末曝光，以其高度的完成度和细节在克劳德的绘画作品中脱颖而出。《圣经》的主题设定在一个由漫射的自然主义光线激发的虚构景观中。它可能是为蒙彼利埃主教François Bosquet绘制的展示图，他委托艺术家为他的《山上的宝训》（Frick Collection，纽约）制作了一个吊坠。克劳德认为这幅画是他最美丽的作品，后来大部分被大火烧毁（一块碎片保存在英国霍尔哈姆大厅）。克劳德在这里描绘了《旧约》中王后以斯帖的故事，她去王宫为被判死刑的人求饶。由于在国王面前不请自来的露面被禁止，否则将被判处死刑，埃丝特在接近国王宝座时因恐惧而倒下，这是巴洛克艺术家经常描绘的场景。克劳德选择了以斯帖接近宫殿的时刻（圣经文本中没有描述），将焦点从国王的仁慈转移到了以斯特的勇敢行为上，当时其结果尚不清楚。
介绍（英）	This magnificent compositional study, which came to light in the late 1980s, stands out in Claude's graphic oeuvre for its high degree of finish and detail. The biblical subject is set in an invented landscape animated by a diffuse naturalistic light. It was presumably made as a presentation drawing for François Bosquet, bishop of Montpellier, who had commissioned from the artist a pendant to his Sermon on the Mount (Frick Collection, New York). The resulting painting, considered by Claude to be his most beautiful, was later largely destroyed by fire (a fragment survives at Holkham Hall, England). Claude here depicts the Old Testament story of Queen Esther, who went to the king's palace to implore mercy for her condemned people. As uninvited appearances before the king were forbidden under penalty of death, Esther collapsed in fear as she neared his throne, a scene commonly depicted by Baroque artists. By choosing instead the moment of Esther's approach to the palace, which is not described in the biblical text, Claude has shifted the focus from the clemency of the king to Esther's act of bravery when its outcome was still unclear.