Mountainous Landscape with a Hermit
Aegidius Sadeler, II
c. 1590-1620
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 20.2 × 27.1 cm (8 × 10 11/16 in.); sheet: 25.9 × 32.4 cm (10 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268326
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...