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Maker(s):Veronese, Paolo, after
Culture:Italian (1528-1588)
Title:Study for a painting by Paolo Veronese in the Church of S. Sebastiano, Venice; Vashti being banished by King Ahasuerus
Date Made:late 18th century
Type:Drawing
Materials:Grey chalk on grey paper
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Venice
Measurements:mount: 21 x 15 1/8 in.
Accession Number:  MH 1992.20.2
Credit Line:Gift of Elizabeth Fenn in memory of Frederica Whitney Baeslack (Class of 1901)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
The scene (reflected also in Veronese's ceiling painting in San Sebastiano in Venice, depicts Vashti, the first wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, descending the
stairs out of the palace, helped by a young page and escorted by an old woman servant. She has been banished for disobeying the King’s order to attend a
feast. Ahasuerus subsequently chooses Esther as his wife.

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