File:Mercury by Hendrick Goltzius.jpg

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Summary

Hendrik Goltzius: Mercury  wikidata:Q28100372 reasonator:Q28100372
Artist
Hendrik Goltzius  (1558–1617)  wikidata:Q165367
 
Hendrik Goltzius
Alternative names
Hendrick Goltius, Hendrick Goltz, Hendrick Golzius, Hendrick van Bracht, Hendricus Goltzius, Henricus Goltzius, Hendrick Gols, Hendrik Gols, Hendrik Goltz, Hendrik Goltius, Henrik Golzius
Description Dutch printmaker, painter, drawer and publisher
Date of birth/death February 1558 Edit this at Wikidata 1 January 1617 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bracht, Brüggen Haarlem
Work period 1577-1617
Work location
Duisburg (1561), Haarlem (1577-1590), Italy (1590-1591), Haarlem (August 1591-1617)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q165367
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Title
Mercury Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lja,"メルクリウス"
label QS:Lfr,"Mercure"
label QS:Lnl,"Mercurius"
label QS:Lru,"Меркурий"
label QS:Lde,"Mercurius"
label QS:Len,"Mercury"
label QS:Lar,"ميركوري"
label QS:Lzh,"墨丘利"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Part of a series of three paintings, depicting Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva, commissioned by Johan Colterman.
Depicted people Mercury Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1611 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 214 cm (84.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 120 cm (47.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; thickness: 15 cm (5.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+214U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+120U174728
dimensions QS:P2610,+15U174728
institution QS:P195,Q18600731
institution QS:P195,Q221092
institution QS:P195,Q574961
Accession number
Place of creation Haarlem
Object history

1613: purchased by Johan Colterman (II) (1591-1649), Haarlem (?)

1649: inherited by Herman Colterman, Hoorn (?)

by ca. 1671: Mr. Wibo, Hoorn

by 1721
date QS:P,+1721-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1721-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: François van Bredenhoff (1648-1721), Huis Oostenhuizen, Hoorn from 1671
date QS:P,+1671-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1671-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Huis Oostenhuizen, Hoorn by 1875
date QS:P,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Léon Gauchez (art dealer), Paris

1875: acquired by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, Inventory number 44

from 1917 until 2013: lent to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Inventory number OS I-96, by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, through the Dutch state, Inventory number B1133

2013: lent to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Inventory number OS I-96, by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague (?)
Inscriptions

Monogram and date bottom right:

HG / Ao 1611

on the frame:

IN BRUIKLEEN v. h. RIJK.

on the frame:

MERCURIUS.
References

Frans Hals Museum online catalogue, as Mercury, 238 × 143 × 15 cm (93.7 × 56.2 × 5.9 in).

Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Mercury, height: 214 cm (84.2 in); width: 120 cm (47.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,214U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,120U174728
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RKDimages, Art-work number 671, as Mercury as personification of painting, height: 214 cm (84.2 in); width: 120 cm (47.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,214U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,120U174728
Collectie Nederland, as Mercurius.
Source/Photographer rkd.nl : Home : Info
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