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Nicolas Raymond de La Fage (1656-90)

Mercury and Argus

RCIN 906189

Mercury and Argus

Nicolas Raymond de La Fage (1656-90)

Mercury and Argus

Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2022

Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2022

Description

F/gd Argus asleep under the influence of Mercury's piping. B/gd Mercury carries the head of Argus to Juno.

Provenance

Listed in George III's 'Inventory A,' c.1800, p.128 ('M^r: Le Fage.'): '47. Forty seven, forty of which are designs taken from the Metmorphosis of Ovid.'
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection Nicolas Raymond de La Fage (1656-90)
(artist)

Subject(s)

Search the collection Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
Groupings
Object type(s)
visual works
drawings/watercolours
Subject(s)
Religion & Theology
Religions and faiths
Religions of antiquity
Classical mythology
Mercury (mythology)
References

Other number(s)

RL 06189

B(F) : Blunt, A.F., 1945. The French Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, Oxford and London – B(F) 114

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