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Mercury and Argus
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Mercury sits on a rock and plays a flute. He tries to lull Argus to sleep with his music, so that he can then kill him. Argus sits in the foreground to the left. In the background, Io in the guise of a cow. Text in the lower margin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineMercurius en Argus. 1622 - 1648. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
