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Mercury and Argus
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Mercury and Argus

Giuseppe Diamantini · 1631 - 1705 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Mercury plays a flute. He attempts to lull Argus to sleep with his music so that he may subsequently kill him. Argus sits in the foreground right. In the background Io in the form of a cow.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printIo as a cow watched by Argus
Credit lineMercurius en Argus. 1631 - 1705. Giuseppe Diamantini. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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