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Jan Saenredam

Also known as: Jan Saenredam; primary name: Saenredam, Jan
Details: individual; printmaker; designer; Dutch; Male
Life dates: c.1565-1607
Biography: Engraver. b.Assendelft, orphaned and initially a farm worker. With help of a local patron, late in life entered circle of Goltzius in 1589 and of de Gheyn. Set up on his own account in Assendelft c.1595, and already recognised by van Mander in 1602 as an outstanding figure in Dutch engraving. Turned to designing as well as engraving from around 1600. Father of Pieter (q.v.).
Bibliography: Bartsch III pp.219-258 (123 nos) Hollstein (133 nos)

225 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1859,0316.1082 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Frederik SustrisFormerly attributed to:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1555-1599

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.100 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 17thC

drawing

Museum number: SL,5214.117 |
Producer name: After:Abraham BloemaertAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1603-1605

drawing

Museum number: SL,5227.51 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1595

drawing

Museum number: 1997,0712.96 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Joachim von SandrartAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1675

drawing

Museum number: 1854,0628.15 |
Producer name: Drawn by:AnonymousFormerly attributed to:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 17thC-18thC

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1923,0113.15 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Drawn by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1580-1607

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1923,0113.16 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Drawn by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1580-1607

drawing

Museum number: 1872,0608.527 |
Producer name: After:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1580-1607

drawing

Museum number: SL,5227.20 |
Producer name: After:Giovanni da BolognaFormerly attributed to:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1570-1590

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1923,0113.14 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Drawn by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1580-1607

print

Title: Four seasons |
Museum number: D,5.242 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Elenchus rerum, Deo auspice, a confoederatis Belgis præclare gestarum |
Museum number: 1875,0710.330 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Hermann Allartz |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Three kinds of marriages |
Museum number: 1854,0513.162 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1915,0508.34 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem |
Production date: 1602

print

Title: Three Goddesses |
Museum number: D,5.235 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Ceres, Venus and Cupid and Bacchus |
Museum number: 1850,1214.48 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: Four times of day |
Museum number: 1854,0513.173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1877,0811.911 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1598

print

Museum number: 1928,1212.115 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1599

print

Museum number: 1873,0809.823 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Lucas van Leyden |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Parable of the wise and foolish virgins |
Museum number: 1857,0613.559 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Print made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: The wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob |
Museum number: 1928,1212.58 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1597

print

Title: Ceres, Venus and Cupid and Bacchus |
Museum number: 1850,1214.50 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: The story of Adam and Eve |
Museum number: 1856,0815.54 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1604

print; ornament print

Title: Knife handles with scenes of the new testament |
Museum number: 1904,0608.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Theodor de BryAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1580-1600

print

Title: Punishment of Niobe |
Museum number: 1854,0513.146 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1594

print; ornament print

Title: Thimbles |
Museum number: 1883,1110.490 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Theodor de BryAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1580-1600

print

Title: Diligentia |
Museum number: Gg,4Q.17 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusAfter:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1615

print

Title: The wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob |
Museum number: 1873,0809.157 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1597

print

Title: Three kinds of marriages |
Museum number: 1854,0513.161 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Loves of the gods The three Kingdoms of the World |
Museum number: 1854,0513.153 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1594

print

Title: Loves of the gods The three Kingdoms of the World |
Museum number: 1888,0716.266 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1594

print

Title: Patientia Three virtues |
Museum number: 1857,0613.572 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1615

print

Title: Loves of the gods The three Kingdoms of the World |
Museum number: D,5.246 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1594

print

Title: Four times of day |
Museum number: D,5.237 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1852,1211.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1592

print

Museum number: 1867,0413.608 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem |
Production date: 1605

print

Title: Four times of day |
Museum number: 1854,0513.172 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: D,5.168 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Three Goddesses |
Museum number: 1856,0815.63 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Bacchus, Venus and Cupid and Ceres |
Museum number: 1854,0513.160 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Emblema. hodierna. rerum. status. in. Belgica. foederata. |
Museum number: 1882,0812.468 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Hermann Allartz |
Production date: 1602

print

Museum number: 1864,1114.475 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1616

print

Title: The wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob |
Museum number: 1928,1212.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1597

print

Museum number: 1851,1213.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1593

print

Museum number: 1857,0613.565 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1601

print

Museum number: 1937,0915.252 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1615

print

Title: Seven planetary gods |
Museum number: 1854,0513.166 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Museum number: 1857,0613.563 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: Seven planetary gods |
Museum number: D,5.249 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: Three cardinal virtues |
Museum number: 1857,0613.566 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1601

print

Museum number: 1877,0609.2032 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Karel van Mander I |
Production date: 1600

print

Museum number: 1888,0716.267 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 2001,0128.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Karel van Mander I |
Production date: 1580-1607

print

Title: Three kinds of marriages |
Museum number: 1854,0513.163 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: The story of Adam and Eve |
Museum number: 1856,0815.51 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1604

print

Museum number: 1938,0311.6.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1601

print

Museum number: 1873,0712.74 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: D,5.129 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Karel van Mander I |
Production date: 1585-1607

print

Title: Elenchus rerum, deo auspice, a Confoedertis Belgis præclare gestarum |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4744 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Hermann Allartz |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Antrum Platonicum |
Museum number: 1870,0625.707 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem |
Production date: 1604

print

Title: Five senses |
Museum number: 1874,0711.1863 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Nymphs of Diana |
Museum number: 1856,0815.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1616

print

Title: Three goddesses seated in clouds |
Museum number: 1856,0815.68 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: Diligentia Three virtues |
Museum number: 1857,0613.571 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1615

print

Title: The four seasons |
Museum number: 1936,1214.4 |
Producer name: After:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1601-1652

print

Museum number: 1937,0915.437 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1597

print

Title: Nymphs of Diana |
Museum number: 1856,0815.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1580-1607

print

Title: Seven planetary gods |
Museum number: 1958,0712.156 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Museum number: 1871,0812.80 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1883,0609.63 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Print made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Seven planetary gods |
Museum number: 1854,0513.164 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1596

print

Museum number: 1871,0812.82 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Pieter Isaacsz. |
Production date: 1604

print

Title: Punishment of Niobe |
Museum number: 1854,0513.145 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1594

print

Museum number: 1854,0513.175 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: The wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob |
Museum number: 1928,1212.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1597

print

Museum number: 1866,0407.828 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1603-1605

print

Title: Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus |
Museum number: 1928,1212.116 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1600

print

Museum number: 1870,0625.705 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 Print made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1596

print

Title: Punishment of Niobe |
Museum number: 1854,0513.150 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1594

print

Museum number: 1857,0613.570 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Lucas van Leyden |
Production date: 1600

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1871,0812.81 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1604

print

Title: Bacchus, Venus and Cupid and Ceres |
Museum number: 1854,0513.159 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPrint made by:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1910,0208.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1937,0915.298 |
Producer name: After:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1605-1652

print

Title: Punishment of Niobe |
Museum number: 1854,0513.148 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1594

print

Title: Emblema Hodierni rerum status in Belgica foederata |
Museum number: 1857,0613.564 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamPublished by:Hermann Allartz |
Production date: 1602

print

Museum number: 1857,0613.579 |
Producer name: BIOG44724 After:Jan Saenredam |
Production date: 1600-1650

print

Museum number: 1873,0510.3574 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Museum number: 1850,0726.2.a |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1603-1605 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Title: The virtues (in niche) |
Museum number: 1857,0613.508 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1593 |
Production place: Published in:Haarlem

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6905 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van de Velde IIPrinted by:Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch |
Production date: 1627 |
Production place: Printed in:Haarlem

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