Catherine de Medici (?)
Jan Sadeler I
1501 to 1550
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 14.2 × 10.5 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.886
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jan Sadeler I
Jan Sadeler I (also known as Johann or Johannes Sadeler the Elder) was a leading Flemish engraver, printmaker, and publisher of the late sixteenth century. Born in Brussels in 1550, he came from a family of armor engravers (“chasers”) originally from Aalst. His father, Jan de Saeyelleer or Sadeleer, trained him in metal engraving techniques from an early age. By the late 1560s or early 1570s Sadel...