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Mercury
Alternate title(s):
Mercury as personification of painting
1611
Oil on panel
214 × 120 cm (84.25 × 47.24 in)
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Accession number OS I-96
Notes
Part of a series of three paintings, depicting Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva, commissioned by Johan Colterman.
Signed and dated bottom right: HG Ao 1611
Provenance: 1613(1613): commissioned by mr. Johan Colterman, Haarlem
from 1611(1611): Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), Haarlem
mr. Herman Colterman, Hoorn
by ca. 1671: mr. Wibo, Hoorn
from 1671(1671) until 1699(1699): Oosthuizen, Hoorn
by 1875(1875): Léon Gauchez, Paris
1875(1875): obtained by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, Inventory number 44, The Hague
1917(1917): lent to the Frans Hals Museum, Inventory number OS I-96, Haarlem
