Name: Antique Master Print-ESTHER-ACCUSES-HAMAN-BANQUET-Galle-Heemskerck-1564
SKU: PICTURA-08115
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Antique Master Print-ESTHER-ACCUSES-HAMAN-BANQUET-Galle-Heemskerck-1564

€275.00

‘EXTREMUM TE EPULIS HAMAN SERALIBUS EXPLET, / TE TUA CRUX MANET, HANC NEMESIN GULA FRACTA MORATUR.’

– At a royal banquet, Queen Esther points to Haman and reveals his plot to destroy her people. King Ahasuerus listens in judgment while Haman, caught off guard, pleads his case. In the background, scenes of preparation and earlier episodes are faintly visible. The table is richly set, and the royal canopy looms above.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Hand.

Sheet size: 24.6 x 19.3 cm (9.69 x 7.6 inch). Image size: 24.6 x 19.3 cm. (9.69 x 7.6 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Trimmed to plate close to platemark. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ESTHER, HAMAN, AHASUERUS, BANQUET, OLD TESTAMENT, REVELATION, JUDGMENT, BOOK OF ESTHER, JUDAIC HISTORY, COURT INTRIGUE | PCO-A56-20

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 8 from The Story of Esther, engraved by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck.

Reference: New Hollstein Heemskerck 158; Galle 56.

Early edition.

Biography engraver: Philips Galle (1537-1612), prominent Antwerp engraver and publisher. A key figure in the print trade, known for religious and allegorical subjects after prominent Northern artists.

Biography artist: Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Dutch Mannerist painter and draftsman. Trained in Haarlem, he traveled to Italy and returned with a style influenced by the antique and Raphael.