Mercury Falling in Love with Herse

1590

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Hendrick Goltzius

Mercury Falling in Love with Herse

Hendrick Goltzius

Mercury Falling in Love with Herse

1590

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 184 x 260 mm. (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.) Plate: 175 x 250 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Portfolio/Series Plate 17 from the series "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II"

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1946.112.12067

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "17"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Palladis Actee sacrata [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite diamond with "9161"; lower center in brown ink "B. 67"

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: unidentified (coat-of-arms?)

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Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1558-1617

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Honoré Daumier

The Chevalier des Adrets is the lover of a woman of the world. He is amiable and fervent, he pretends to be passionate and devoted... one day, an alleged bailiff and an alleged bill of exchange fall like a clap of thunder into the midst of the most tender effusion of feeling... "Oh! My God!! The Baron de Wormspire, a so-called friend, has had the impudence to have me thrown into prison... He's ruined my good fortune, separated me from what I love! Oh! Friends!! What are friends?... There's no such thing as a friend!!!..." The poor woman, poor dupe, casts off her jewels, gives him everything she can, borrows, ruins herself, only to discover too late that her knight is only a knight of industry, a right Robert Macaire.

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