The daughters of Aglaura (Mercury and Herse)
Adam Elsheimer|Wenceslaus Hollar
ca. 1646 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints
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.
- Artist
- Adam Elsheimer|Wenceslaus Hollar
- Date
- ca. 1646
- Medium
- Etching, only state
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
