Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 83
o Troy.) 92 THE MAGAZINE OF AKT. money. Wishing to occupy himself, he undertookto paint pictures for the kings tapestries at acheaper rate than that which his colleagues approvedof—two instead of three thousand livres. He chosethe stories of Esther and of Jason for his subjects, neither, his place… … THE POISONED ROBE,(fly Jem) Francois f/e Troy.) and three of the Esther series of seven were ex-hibited at the Salon in 1738 before his departurefor Italy. The dispositions, says dArgenville, were magnificent — especially the triumph ofMordecai. The prevailing tone of colour was asmuch admired by…
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