The daughters of Aglaura (Mercury and Herse)
Mercury and Herse; the seven daughters of Aglaura holding baskets of flowers walk along a country path to the right towards a temple, Mercury flying above, within an oval. Related to a painting by Paul Bril and Elsheimer in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, copying figures from center.
Artwork Details
- Title: The daughters of Aglaura (Mercury and Herse)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Artist: After Adam Elsheimer (German, Frankfurt 1578–1610 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1646
- Medium: Etching, only state
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 3 13/16 in. (8.2 × 9.7 cm) cut outside borderline
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
- Object Number: 17.50.18-150
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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