Neptune and Caenis
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 11/16 × 15 9/16 in. (52.5 × 39.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
Accession Number
56.597.42
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Johann Sadeler I|Cornelius Caymox|Bartholomeus Spranger · 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 ...