Art, literature & history
Spranger and his Wife
1600
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 29.5 × 41.8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2023.1094
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Aegidius Sadeler II. Spranger and his Wife, 1600. Inventory 2023.1094. Aegidius Sadeler II; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/268669. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Existing creator authority Q1297898 explicitly identifies Chicago artist 22737 and independently matching NGA constituent 5422. Local biography years remain None / None; Chicago numeric person fields are 1570 / 1629, while its object display is 'Aegidius Sadeler II \nFlemish, c. 1570–1629'. NGA date wording 'Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629' remains separate source evidence. No biography field or creator link is rewritten. The exact existing physical object, inventory, date interval and unique native artist role were individually reviewed.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Spranger and his Wife — Aegidius Sadeler II. 1600.
Medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 29.5 × 41.8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.