Portrait of Emperor Matthias
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 65.2 × 41.7 cm (25 11/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Plate: 68.2 × 42.6 cm (26 7/8 × 16 13/16 in.); Sheet: 68.3 × 46.7 cm (26 15/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222243
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...