, Antique Master Print-AEGIDIUS-SADELER-PORTRAIT-De Jode-Sadeler-1662, Pictura Antique Prints
, Antique Master Print-AEGIDIUS-SADELER-PORTRAIT-De Jode-Sadeler-1662, Pictura Antique Prints

Antique Master Print-AEGIDIUS-SADELER-PORTRAIT-De Jode-Sadeler-1662

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€225.00

‘107 ?GIDIVS SADELER.’ FOLLOWED BY FRENCH BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT BEGINNING: ‘L?UN DES PREMIERS GRAVEURS DE TOUTE LE MONDE?’ WITH CREDITS: ‘AEGIDIUS SADELER PINXIT.’ ‘PET. DE IODE SCULPSIT.’ AND ‘IO. MEYSSENS EXCUDIT.”

– Portrait of the Flemish engraver Aegidius (Gilles) Sadeler shown half-length facing slightly left while looking directly at the viewer. He wears a broad collar and cloak, holding a chain with a medallion bearing a portrait. The background is filled with fine cross-hatched engraving typical of seventeenth-century reproductive portrait prints. The portrait was engraved by Pieter de Jode II after a design by Aegidius Sadeler himself and published by Joannes Meyssens in Antwerp. Aegidius Sadeler (c.1570-1629) was a prominent Flemish engraver and member of the celebrated Sadeler family of printmakers. He worked in Antwerp, Munich, and Prague, producing engravings after major painters such as Bartholomeus Spranger and other artists of the Prague court. His work played a key role in spreading late Renaissance and early Baroque artistic styles through printed imagery.

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Description

Medium: Line engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 11.1 x 13.7 cm (4.37 x 5.39 inch). Image size: 11.1 x 13.7 cm. (4.37 x 5.39 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soling and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

AEGIDIUS SADELER PORTRAIT, PIETER DE JODE ENGRAVING, FLEMISH ENGRAVER PORTRAIT, JOANNES MEYSSENS GULDEN CABINET, 17TH CENTURY PRINT | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Joannes Meyssens, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, Antwerp, 1662.

Reference: Scottish National Portrait Gallery FP II 299.2; Meyssens, Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662.

Biography engraver: Pieter de Jode II (1606-after 1674) was a Flemish engraver and publisher active in Antwerp. The son of the engraver Pieter de Jode I, he continued the family’s printmaking workshop and produced numerous reproductive engravings after contemporary Flemish and Italian artists. His prints were widely circulated in illustrated books and portrait series.

Biography artist: Aegidius Sadeler (c.1570-1629) was a Flemish engraver and painter belonging to the renowned Sadeler dynasty of printmakers. Born in Antwerp, he worked in Munich and later in Prague at the court of Emperor Rudolf II. Sadeler engraved works after many leading artists of his time and helped disseminate the artistic style of the late Renaissance and early Baroque across Europe.

Additional information

Dimensions 13 × 11 × 1 cm

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