14. Moyses Van Uyttenbroeck
(ca. 1600-1648)

Mercury Accuses Battus

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Uyttenbroeck, Mercury Accuses

Mercury Accuses Battus

Etching, ca.1621, 154 x 221 mm., Bartsch 29, TIB 29 ii/ii (with the artist’s name as publisher). Strong, clean impression on laid paper, trimmed on the plate mark but with a white border around the image; tiny nick in the upper left corner. Uyttenbroeck was born and died in the Hague. Unlike many of his contemporaries, landscape was of secondary interest to him, and his paintings and etchings are mostly concerned with biblical and mythological episodes, influenced, if only indirectly perhaps, by Elsheimer. What Mercury is accusing Battus of here is of breaking a vow of silence and telling others of his seeing Mercury stealing the herd guarded by Apollo. For this, Mercury turned Battus to stone. But that is another print (and by another artist).

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