Holy Family
Jan Sadeler, I
1591
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19.7 × 12.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.); sheet: 24.6 × 16.6 cm (9 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267749
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...