2459A

S. Clara

Artist: Cornelis Galle I (1576-1650)
Title: S. Clara
Date: 1630
Medium: Etching published by Theodor Galle (1566-1638). One of 38 portraits illustrating Estienne Binet, S.J., Sancti fundatores religiosorum ordinum in ecclesia Laetiensis[.] Published in Antwerp by Joannes Galle (1600-1676) in 1630 and 1634. Also published in French by Theodor Galle and Martin Nuyts (Antwerp, 1634). After the paintings in the Choir of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambert in Liessies, Haynaut, France (most of these paintings were destroyed during the French Revolution).
Photo Source: Museum Plantin Moretus
Item: 2459A