Hendrick Goltzius - Mercury



Hendrick Goltzius
Mercury
1611
214 x 120 cm
Oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
long term loan by the Mauritshuis, The Hague


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Literature

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 128-129
Neeltje Köhler (ed.), Painting in Haarlem 1500 - 1850, Gent, 2006, nr. 146

Literature
Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals, [Amsterdam], 2012, fig. 68
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 26



Provenance

Executed for Johan Colterman I, or possibly his son Johan Colterman II, Haarlem
subsequently their heirs in Haarlem and Hoorn, until 1671
François van Bredenhoff and subsequent owners of Huis Oosterhuizen, Hoorn
Léon Gauchez Gallery, Paris, 1875
Mauritshuis, The Hague, purchased 1875
on loan to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, since 1917
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External links

Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 44

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Hendrick Goltzius Lot and his Daughters
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