Rubens' painting, displayed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium, measures 6 by 4 meters (20 ft x 13 ft), ...

What’s the very latest flight of fancy on Manhattan’s fluttery gallery row? Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Rembrandt’s The Night Watch? That’s right, along with Titian, Fragonard and Van Dyck.

You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master who invented realism in the 17th century. Yet “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” a delectably ...