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Mercury Abducting Psyche, Psyche Seen from Behind (Merkur bortfører Psyche)

Jan Harmensz. Muller after Adriaen de Vries

1595–98

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The story

Adriaen de Vries cast his bronze of Mercury carrying off Psyche in 1593 for Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Muller engraved it from three angles so that, side by side, the prints turn the couple through their rising spiral, here with Psyche seen from behind.

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Object details

Title: Mercury Abducting Psyche, Psyche Seen from Behind (Merkur bortfører Psyche)
Artist: Jan Harmensz. Muller after Adriaen de Vries
Date: 1595–98
Culture: Dutch
Medium: Copper engraving
Object type: Prints
Collection: SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Credit line: Image source open.smk.dk. License Public domain (SMK open data, public_domain=true, rights https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/).
Object number: EFA.0380
Original image: 1596 × 3000 px
Source record: View on open.smk.dk
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Jan Harmensz. Muller after Adriaen de Vries. Mercury Abducting Psyche, Psyche Seen from Behind (Merkur bortfører Psyche). 1595–98. SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Image source open.smk.dk. License Public domain (SMK open data, public_domain=true, rights https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0380/