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Mercury and Argus
Mercury and Argus
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Mercury and Argus

by Imitator of Claude

Date: 17th Century

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Item details
  • Acquisition

    Bourgeois Bequest, 1811

  • Accession number

    DPG336

  • Artist

    Imitator of Claude

  • Date

    17th Century

  • Dimensions

    32.5 x 36.5 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on panel

Mercury lulls to sleep and will kill the many-eyed Argus, set by Juno to watch over lo, whom Jupiter (having ravished her) had transformed into a heifer (Ovid. Metamorphoses, I).

Mercury and Argus

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