title: Ferdinand Elle
text: # Ferdinand Elle
  
  Ferdinand Elle (1570 in Mechelen – 1637 in Paris) was a French portrait painter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  According to the RKD he was the teacher of Nicolas Poussin and his son, the painter Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. From 1601 he was court painter to Louis XIII. Very few of his works survive.
  
  