Object Image

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne)

Credit: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz Gift, 1954
c. 1490-1525
Engraving
30.2 x 44.0cm
54.579
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

Where you'll find this

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection