Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne)

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne) by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 7/8 × 17 5/16 in. (30.2 × 44 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz Gift, 1954

Accession Number

54.579

Tags

MenMercury

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