Carolus de Longueval, Count of Buquoy, Baron of Vaux etc., etc.,
Portrait of Carolus de Longueval, Count of Buquoy, Baron of Vaux etc., etc.,
Designed by Aegidius Sadeler (circa 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.
o.s:18 3/8 ins x 22 1/2 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 Aalst. 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.
