Title: The Triumph of Mordecai 
Artist: _ Rembrandt
Category: Old Master
Medium: Etching
Framed: Yes
Height: 8 5/16"
Width: 6 3/4"

c. 1641 Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. A 17th century lifetime impression a impression of Bartsch’s only state, Usticke’s first state of two printed prior to the addition of the aquatint to deepen the shadows, showing touches of burr, particularily lower left.

Mordecai, one of the many Jews taken into exile in Persia, uncovered a conspiracy against King Ahasuerus, to whom his niece was married. Years later the king was reminded that Mordecai had never been rewarded for this service, and he asked his ambitious councilor Haman, who was a hated enemy of the Jews and was seeking to destory them, how to honor a man who stood high in the king’s favor. Haman, thinking that he himself was to be honored, suggested that the man be clad in the king’s robes and, mounted on the king’s horse, to be led through the city in triumph. The king then orderd Haman to do the same for Modechai (Esther 6.)