Carolus de Longueval by the Sadelers 

Portrait of Carolus de Longueval, Count of Buquoy, Baron of Vaux etc., etc.,

Designed by Aegidius Sadeler (1570-1629) and engraved by Marco Sedeler. A fine, sharp and inky print dating from 1621, trimmed to within the plate mark but retaining a thin margin outside of the printed area.

Within a good replica of a correct eighteenth century print frame.

o.s:18 ins x 13 ins
sheet: 10 1/2 ins x 15 1/2 ins

The Sadeler family were the largest, and probably the most successful of the dynasties of Flemish engravers of the 17th century. They were descended from “chasers,” engravers of armour, from Aalast. Sadeler was the imperial artist to the Austrian Hapsburg court in the seventeenth century. He recorded many of the various rulers and noblemen who visited Emperor Rudolf II and engraved their portraits, usually in an emblematic oval surrounded by mythical symbols and intricate images of battle scenes, here a battle during the Thirty Years’ War, that served to heighten the sitter’s importance.