God Sending the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin
ca. 1595–1600
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (cut roughly to platemark): 10 3/16 × 8 7/16 in. (25.9 × 21.4 cm) Image: 9 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (23.8 × 20.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.16(10)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Johann Sadeler I|Friedrich Sustris · 1550–1601
**Johann Sadeler I (also known as Jan or Johannes Sadeler), born in Brussels in 1550 and active until his death in Venice in 1600, stands as a pivotal figure in the Sadeler family, the most prolific dynasty of Flemish engravers and print publishers in Northern Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.** As the eldest of three brothers—including Aegidius I and Raphael I—he ...