Flagellation, from Passion of Christ
Jan Sadeler, I
1575/1600
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 16.1 × 10.7 cm (6 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93096
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...