Rest on the Flight into Egypt
c. 1600
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.1 × 13.3 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/4 in.); sheet: 24.6 × 16.7 cm (9 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267748
Art Historical Context
**Rest on the Flight into Egypt** *Jan Sadeler I, c. 1600* Engraving on paper; plate: 18.1 × 13.3 cm Behold Jan Sadeler I's delicate engraving capturing a tender moment from the biblical Flight into Egypt, where the Holy Family pauses in their perilous journey to escape King Herod's massacre of the innocents. Created around 1600 by this Flemish master engraver from a renowned family of printmakers, the work reflects the Mannerist elegance of late 16th-century Northern Europe. Sadeler, active in Antwerp and Prague, specialized in intricate reproductive prints that brought religious narra...
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...