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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
Burin print depicting Saint Jerome made by Johan Sadeler I (Brussel 1550 - Venice 1600). The Sadelers were a family of Flemish artists, mainly reproduction engravers, active throughout Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries. The style of family members is very similar and not always easily distinguishable. For three generations, moving from Holland to Italy, stopping in Germany and Prague, these engravers, publishers and print dealers played a central role in the dissemination of images. From 1572 Jan/Johan worked in Antwerp, then the world center of printing. He also became a master of the Guild of St. Luke. With his younger brother Rafael the Elder he initially moved to Cologne but the turmoil of the Dutch revolt forced the artists of Antwerp to move, so the Sadelers arrived in Italy in 1593, in Venice where they opened a printing house. Kneeling San Girolamo is represented inside a cave, far from the profile of the castle seen in the background. In accordance with the iconography, the Saint is an elderly, bearded man, his face marked by wrinkles clashes with his plastic and vigorous body covered only by a light loincloth. With his right hand he holds a crucifix, in his left a stone in the act of flagellating himself. His gaze rests in front of an open prayer book and beyond the statue of the Virgin and Child. In the foreground the lion attribute of the Saint, a skull symbol of the transience of earthly life and on the left a statue of a naked woman in pieces, thrown among the brambles. Below the image are engraved four lines in Latin in two columns: Cum sacrum… / …tua fixa cruce . Further down in the centre: G. Monstaert pinxit. Joh. Sadeler Sculpit. Ferdinand Real excudit. Gillis Mostaert the Elder (Hulst 1528–Antwerp 1598) was a Renaissance painter and draftsman with a thriving workshop in Antwerp, he is remembered today for landscape subjects, particularly nocturnal or with fire effects. In the card of the specimen kept in the British Museum we read that there is a mirrored sheet in which Sadeler engraved a Magdalene. Excellent impression trimmed along the copper ledge always visible except along the underside. Very good state of conservation, sheet applied on thick paper from the 18th century. References: Hollstein 370.
ID: 11318-1683730224-63233
