Saturday, September 25, 2021

Cornelis Galle the Elder (Antwerp Engraver)

Cornelis Galle the Elder
Still Life with Skull
ca. 1625
engraving
Library of the Polish Academy
of Arts and Sciences, Kraków

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Judith beheading Holofernes
ca. 1615
engraving
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Four Fathers of the Church
before 1650
engraving
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Fall of the Rebel Angels
ca. 1620
engraving
private collection

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Jan van den Hoecke
Jupiter and Mercury with Baucis and Philemon
ca. 1635-50
engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Maerten de Vos
Christ with the Apostles on the Sea of Galilee
ca. 1618
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Gerard Seghers
Christ as Man of Sorrows, with Two Angels
before 1650
engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Gerrit Pietersz
Musical Party in the Open Air
before 1650
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Gerrit Pietersz
Sinfulness of Mankind
before 1650
engraving
British Museum

Cornelis Galle the Elder
after Peter Paul Rubens
Death of Seneca
(after antique statue in Rome)
ca. 1615
engraving
Wellcome Collection, London

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Classical Architrave decorated with Ceremonial Objects
(book illustration)
ca. 1608
engraving
British Museum

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Antique Roman Statues of Goddesses (Roma on left)
(book illustration)
ca. 1608
engraving
British Museum

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Antique Roman Statue of Man in Toga
(book illustration)
ca. 1608
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Herm with Busts of Mercury and Minerva
ca. 1610
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens
Pictura
(Allegory of Painting)
before 1650
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"Cornelis Galle the Elder, a younger son of Philips Galle, was born at Antwerp in 1576, and was taught engraving by his father.  He followed the example of his brother Theodoor in visiting Rome, where he resided several years, and acquired a correctness of design, and a freedom of execution, in which he greatly surpassed both his father and his brother.  After engraving several plates at Rome, from the Italian masters, he returned to Antwerp, where he carried on the business of a printseller and engraved many plates after the works of his countrymen and his own designs.  He died in 1656."

– Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1886)