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Mercury Killing Argus

Jacob Jordaens

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white image of a man about to kill another man with a sword. The standing man is naked except for a cloth on his back. He is standing on the left side of the image. The man about to be killed is on the right. He is wearing a cloth around his waist and sitting on a wood log with his head resting on his bent arm. A bull is on the left behind the standing man. A dog is on the bottom right. Trees are in the background on the top right. There are lines, likely clouds, in the top background. Three lines of writing are at the bottom left.

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750 × 691 px
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