Mercury Killing Argus
1652
Artist, Flemish, 1613 - 1680

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching with engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 25.8 × 29.3 cm (10 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.175.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 7, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Collection Defer-Dumesnil, Paris, (Lugt 739). Jean Cantacuzène [1863-1934], Bucharest, (Lugt 4030); François Heugel [1922-2010], Paris (Lugt 3373). (Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1751
Hecquet, Robert. Catalogue des estampes gravées d'aprés Rubens. Paris, 1751: no. 17
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 7. i/ii
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, below image, at left: Iac. Iordaens Inventor. 1652.; along bottom, in later hand, in graphite: [indecipherable]; verso: at center, in later hand, in dark brown ink: jacques jordans; at bottom right, in later hand, in graphite: 100850 [in rectangle]
Markings
recto: François Heugel (Lugt 3373) and Jean de Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030); verso: Defer-Dumesnil (Lugt 739)
Watermarks
none