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Philips Galle

The Parable of the Good Shepherd, 1565

Description

Maker

  • After Pieter Bruegel I, b. 1525-1530, d. 1569, Flemish
  • Philips Galle, 1537-1612, Flemish

Title

The Parable of the Good Shepherd

Year

1565

Medium

Engraving on light weight cream paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 22.4 x 29.5 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil in LL:M.K.38/MK 38358; in LR:Van Bastelaer 122/c 23263; in LR corner:90/1#10In Plate--In LL:BRVEGHEL -IN-vEN-; In LC:Th. Galle exc. initialed on ax. LR:PG-F-; above lintel of

Identification

State

2nd of 4

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

52.072

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Philips Galle was an engraver employed by the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock before striking out to run his own publishing house. His technique follows the broad and schematic style of most of Cock’s engravers.

Pieter Bruegel favored New Testament parables, in which he gave visual expression to Christ’s sometimes complex words. Here, he represented several episodes from the parable of the good shepherd found in the Gospel of John: at left are the thieves who enter the stable through its wall to steal the sheep; at the gate to the stable is Christ, embodying the metaphor, “I am the door.” Christ-as-shepherd gives his life for his flock, unlike the shepherd at upper right, who flees from his flock when the wolf appears. Such images involved the viewer in a series of moral questions about how he might be implicated in his salvation through his moral or ethical behavior.

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