Name: Antique Master Print-RUTH-BOAZ-NIGHT-SCENE-GRANARY-Galle-de Weerdt-c.1557-1591
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Antique Master Print-RUTH-BOAZ-NIGHT-SCENE-GRANARY-Galle-de Weerdt-c.1557-1591

€275.00

‘ANTE PEDES BOOZI SE RUTH SUB VESTE RECONDIT. CUMQUE ILLO IN VIRIDI GRAMINE LAETA CUBAT. ? RUTH 3’

– Ruth lies at the feet of Boaz in a granary, while he sleeps among the sheaves. Agricultural tools hang on the wall; in the background, Ruth departs at dawn.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 26.8 x 32.7 cm (10.55 x 12.87 inch). Image size: 27 x 21.3 cm. (10.63 x 8.39 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Wide margins. Small tear at bottom margin. A few pinsize and wormholes in right margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

RUTH, BOAZ, OLD TESTAMENT, NIGHT SCENE, LOVE STORY, PHILIPS GALLE, ADRIAEN DE WEERDT, BIBLICAL WOMAN, 16TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING | PCO-A56-14

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Gerard de Jode, Antwerp.

Reference: New Hollstein Dutch 20-1(2); Part 1, p. 32, afb. 20.

Early edition.

Biography engraver: Philips Galle (1537-1612) was a prominent Netherlandish engraver and publisher based in Haarlem and later Antwerp. He produced reproductive engravings after both Italian and Northern artists and ran a prolific publishing house.

Biography artist: Adriaen de Weerdt (c.1510-1590) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He worked in Cologne and Antwerp, and his biblical drawings were used for various print series, including by Galle and de Jode.