Mercury and Argus, c.1635/38 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 13936-RPP
Location: Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, GermanyOriginal Size: 63 x 87.5 cm
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Painting Information
As with most of the other paintings in this series, the subject is borrowed from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The poet relates that Juno turned her priestess Io into a cow after word of her love affair with Jupiter spread, and appointed the Stoic Argus as her guardian. The unfortunate Io's distress moved Jupiter, and he sent Mercury, who lulled Argus to sleep with a flute, "then quickly struck a blow with his crooked sword where the head joins the neck, and threw him bloodied from the rock." In the painting Mercury, holding the flute in his left hand, has already raised the sword to deliver the death blow to the sleep-deprived Argus. As can be seen, the narrative element prevails in the depiction and there is no doubt for the viewer as to the outcome of the bloody episode. Rubens interprets the event more thoroughly and more dramatically in the single painting created at about the same time, which is set in Dresden. Here Mercury still holds the flute to his mouth and, while observing the impact of the whistle on his victim, cautiously removes the sword from its scabbard. It is Mercury's hesitation to do what he has planned that fills the small painting with particular tension.
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