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Mercury Entering Herse's Room After Changing Agraulos to Stone, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

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Mercury Entering Herse's Room After Changing Agraulos to Stone, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Hendrick Goltzius | Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

1590

Medium

Engraving

Tags

Female Nudes Mercury Dogs Beds

Dimensions

Plate: 6 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (17.7 × 25.5 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 1/4 in. (18.1 × 26 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Hendrick Goltzius

1558–1617 • Dutch Republic

Artist who successfully disseminated his prints and drawings throughout Europe, famous for his power of imitation. Goltzius transferred control of his print workshop to his stepson Jacob Matham by 1598. Comment on works: Portraits; Religious; Mythology.

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