Marquard Freher, Diplomat, Historian, and Jurist
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.5 × 14.8 cm (8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.); secondary support: 28.3 × 22 cm (11 3/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267734
Art Historical Context
In the Prints and Drawings department of the Institute of Chicago, behold this finely detailed engraving titled *Marquard Fre, Diplomat, Historian and Jurist* by Aegidius Sadeler, created in 1618. a modest 21.5 × 14.8 cm on paper, this intimate portrait captures the likeness of Marquard Freher a prominent German scholar whose multifaceted career bridged diplomacy, history, and law during the late Renaissance. Sadeler, a master engraver from a renowned Flemish family of printmakers, renders Freher with poised elegance, likely posthumously, as Freher passed in 1614. Engraving, Sadeler's chosen ...
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...