Mercure and Battus

Title

Mercure and Battus

Draughtsman

• Filippo Lauri

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• red chalk
• Vergé paper

Technique

• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Roman

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Persons Shown

• Mercury
• Battus

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Ovid

Illustrated Passage

• Ovid: Metamorphosen, 2, 676-707

Primary

• 97F1(+0) Battus changed into a touchstone: for violating the promise to keep Mercury's theft of Apollo's cattle a secret, Mercury turns Battus, the shepherd, into a touchstone (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 705) (+ variant)