Calling of the Disciples Peter and Andrew
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 52.6 × 37.1 cm (20 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.); mount: 55.3 × 39.6 cm (21 13/16 × 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268751
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...