Artist : Marcelle Hanselaar
Title : The Secret, The Queen of Sheba
Medium : etching / aquatint, ed 30
Dimensions : 38 x 43 cm, plate size 20 x 25 cm


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The Queen came to Solomon with a great revenue, bearing many rich gifts as she wanted to test him with hard questions. When the Queen enters Solomon’s palace, he is sitting on a magnificent throne in a hall whose floor is laid out with crystal, something which she had never seen before. Thinking the king surrounded by water, she lifts her dress so he sees what he had heard, namely that she has hairy legs. He insults her by saying, “your beauty is that of a woman, your hairy legs are those of a man”. She ignores his insult and begins to ask him her questions.