Art, Symbol & Imagination
Esther Confounding Haman
A crowned ruler sits at a covered table while a standing woman extends her hand towards another member of the company. Carved columns enclose the richly furnished room. The caption identifies Esther confronting Haman. Doré places the decisive action in the woman's directed gesture and the seated ruler's response, keeping the conflict within the formal setting of a courtly meal. The high architectural frame strengthens the impression of authority, while the relatively small arrangement of hands and faces makes accusation, recognition and vulnerability the real centre of the scene.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Esther Confounding Haman" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 181. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-180
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Esther Confounding Haman. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 181. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-180