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Mercury and Argus
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Landscape with castle. Argus rests on a stone while his cows graze nearby. Mercury plays on his shepherd's flute, the music lulls the shepherd Argus to sleep. Later Mercury would kill Argus to free Io, the beloved of Jupiter transformed into a cow. Print from a series of 13 landscapes with biblical and mythological scenes.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMercurius en Argus. c. 1551 - before 1558. Hieronymus Cock. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
