Mercury and Battus, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), 1590 Canvas Print
The old man Battus had promised Mercury not to betray anyone where the cattle that the latter had stolen from Apollo were located. But when Mercury asked him about it in a different guise, he told him anyway. Then the god Battus turned into a stone. On the print Mercury is opposite Battus; behind them a herd of cattle. In the foreground, Apollo, playing a pan flute. Under the performance twice two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series.
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