Anton Sherleyns, Ambassador to Persia
Aegidius Sadeler, II
c. 1600
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 20 × 13.6 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/8 in.); sheet: 22 × 15.2 cm (8 11/16 × 6 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267743
About the Artist
Aegidius Sadeler, II · 1570–1629
Aegidius Sadeler II was born in Antwerp around 1570 into the most distinguished printmaking dynasty of the sixteenth century. The Sadeler family — spanning Jan I, Raphael, and Aegidius I — dominated the European print trade from their Flemish base, and Aegidius II was trained by his uncle Jan Sadeler I, under whom he was listed as a pupil in the records of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1585. He...