The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Two Angels
Aegidius Sadeler, II
c. 1593
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 30 × 22.2 cm (11 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.); sheet: 38.5 × 24.9 cm (15 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268323
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...