Mercurius, from The Seven Planets
Jan Sadeler, I
1585
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 24.1 × 24.8 cm (9 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.); sheet: 26.8 × 29.4 cm (10 9/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268082
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...