Georg III Thurzo of Bethlendorf
Medium
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, with red chalk and touches of white chalk, on paper prepared with an opaque gray ground
Dimensions
Primary support: 16.8 × 12.2 cm (6 5/8 × 4 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 16.9 × 12.9 cm (6 11/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11088
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...