Carrying of the Cross, from Passion of Christ
Jan Sadeler, I
1575/1600
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate, oval cropped to image: 15.2 × 11.2 cm (6 × 4 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
154531
About the Artist
Jan Sadeler, I · 1550–1600
Jan Sadeler I (1550–1600) was born in Brussels and became the most prominent member of the largest and most successful dynasty of Flemish printmakers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Sadeler family — which included Jan's brothers Aegidius and Raphael — produced an extraordinary volume of engravings that circulated across Catholic Europe, disseminating images of religious subjects, p...