Mercury kills Argus, Metamorphoses of Ovid (series title), After playing him to sleep with his flute, Mercury kills the hundred-eyed Argus, who was guarding the cow Io by order of Juno. In the background, Juno rushes to her peacock chariot. In the lower margin a four-line commentary, in two columns, in Latin., print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), after design by: Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1589, paper, engraving, height 179 mm × width 256 mm
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