The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
Master E.S.
1450–60
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13 × 18.6 cm (5 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 13.4 × 19.1 cm (5 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
19503
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Master E.S. · 1450–1467
Master E.S. was a pioneering German engraver active in the middle decades of the fifteenth century, known only by the monogram with which he signed a number of his prints. His precise identity — name, birthplace, and biography — remains unknown, but his signed works, along with a larger group of prints attributed to him on stylistic grounds, place his activity primarily in the Upper Rhine region, ...