Rocky Landscape with Antique Buildings
Johann Sadeler I
1568–1600
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 10 9/16 in. (21.5 × 26.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.6432
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BuildingsLandscapes
About the Artist
Johann Sadeler I · 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 ...