Provenance
Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 29, 1915, lot 227, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
Esther before Ahasuerus or Solomon and Sheba with Cross from Wood of Adam's Tomb
1590/1600
Accession Number
85174
Medium
Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
11 × 17.1 cm (4 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
ink and wash
Credit Line
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
