Rembrandt van Rijn - Haman Begging Esther for Mercy 1635-1660
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Haman Begging Esther for Mercy 1635-1660
136x186cm oil/canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From National Museum of Art of Romania:
Haman before Esther illustrates a key episode in the history of the Jews during their Babilonian exile in the ‘Book of Esther’. Haman, vizier to King Artaxerxes of Persia, planned to kill all Jews to take over all their possessions. His plans were foiled by Esther, the Kings’s wife, herself a Jew. Purim, the greatest feast in the Mozaic calendar, celebrates the deliverance.
The painting shows Haman kneeling before Esther and begging for forgiveness while the King points the sceptre towards him, thus sentencing him to death by hanging.