Mercury and Argus

Wtewael, Joachim Anthonisz (1566-1638) (attributed to)


Item type:
drawing
Height:
13.2 cm  (5 3/16 in.)
Width:
19.6 cm  (7 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on laid paper squared with brown ink

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1973.41.1]

Description

Mercury playing end-blown wind instrument (flute?).

Iconclass

97CC64
Mercury lulls Argus into sleep by making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4017