Title: Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1658
Artist:  Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) 
Artist bio: French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
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)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Palaces, term: Men, term: Women, term: Landscapes, term: Esther