Portrait of Artist and Publisher Philips Galle
Artist(s) / maker(s)
Philips Galle,
Hendrick Goltzius (after)
,
Anonieme meester (engravers (printmakers))
Periods
16th century, 17 centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The engraver and publisher Philips Galle is seen half-side up, on the right, standing behind a table. With his right hand he folds open a print on the table. On the table are a burin and a paperweight with a stack of paper underneath. A copper plate rests against the button of the paperweight. In the background is a landscape…
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The engraver and publisher Philips Galle is seen half-side up, on the right, standing behind a table. With his right hand he folds open a print on the table. On the table are a burin and a paperweight with a stack of paper underneath. A copper plate rests against the button of the paperweight. In the background is a landscape with a biblical scene on the left: Philippus baptising the eunuch. In the Ghent copy, the margin below the portrait with a hymn by Goltzius to Galle in seven lines of Latin has been cut off.
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