About this artwork
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artist:Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675 - 1741) Italian
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title:Esther before Ahasuerus
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen, brown ink and wash, with traces of black chalk, on paper, laid down
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measurements:14.10 x 20.20 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1656
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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Pellegrini was one of the earliest and most successful Italian exponents of the decorative Rococo style that came to dominate much of eighteenth-century European painting. Venetian by birth, he trained under Paolo Pagani, with whom he moved to Austria for six years in 1690. His style was much...