Name: Antique Master Print-ESTHER-AHASUERUS-SCEPTRE-PARDON-Galle-Heemskerck-1564
SKU: PICTURA-08111
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Antique Master Print-ESTHER-AHASUERUS-SCEPTRE-PARDON-Galle-Heemskerck-1564

€275.00

‘AST ANIMUM RECIPE, EN TIBI REX GEMMANTIA TENDIT / SCEPTRA ULTRO, EXPLETI PRIMA ARGUMENTA FURORIS’

– Esther, in regal dress, kneels before King Ahasuerus who extends his jeweled sceptre toward her. Courtiers and guards flank the columns of the palace; an interior scene is visible through the arches.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 25 x 20.5 cm (9.84 x 8.07 inch). Image size: 25 x 20.5 cm. (9.84 x 8.07 inch).

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

ESTHER, AHASUERUS, SCEPTRE, BIBLICAL QUEEN, OLD TESTAMENT, INTERCESSION, PHILIPS GALLE, MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK, 16TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING | PCO-A56-20

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 5 from The Story of Esther, engraved by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck.

Reference: New Hollstein Heemskerck 155; Galle 53.

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.