The Annunciation
Jan Sadeler, I
c. 1580
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 20.6 × 27.2 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268383
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...