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Argus

Also known as: Argus; primary name: Argus; other name: Argos Panoptes; other name: Argos
Details: individual; mythological figure/creature; Greek; Roman; Male
Biography: Giant said to have had multiple eyes; sent by Hera/Juno to guard Io (q.v.) from Zeus/Jupiter; killed by Hermes/Mercury (q.v.), who first lulled him to sleep with music. Juno scattered the slain giant's eyes over the tail of her peacock.

130 related objects

dish

Museum number: 1855,1201.101 |
Producer name: BIOG64678 Painted by:Argus painter |
Production date: 1535-1540 |
Production place: Made in:Pesaro

draughts-piece

Museum number: 1895,0917.9

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1957,1214.92 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Drawn by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1635-1682

drawing

Museum number: 1914,0901.1 |
Producer name: BIOG50054 Drawn by:Eberhard Wächter |
Production date: 1798

drawing

Museum number: 1865,0610.1373 |
Producer name: BIOG48458 Drawn by:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1675-1734

drawing

Museum number: 1985,1109.21 |
Producer name: BIOG35076 Drawn by:Jean Jacques François Le Barbier |
Production date: 1738-1826

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1884,0726.40.111 |
Producer name: BIOG48458 Drawn by:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1699-1716

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1957,1214.156 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Drawn by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1660

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1957,1214.155 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Drawn by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1635-1682

drawing

Museum number: 1895,0915.898 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Drawn by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1647

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.809 |
Producer name: BIOG48220 Drawn by:Pietro Testa |
Production date: 1626-1650

drawing

Museum number: Ff,3.196 |
Producer name: BIOG44078 Drawn by:Giovanni Francesco Romanelli |
Production date: 1625-1662

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1957,1214.104 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Drawn by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1635-1682

drawing

Museum number: 1936,0509.60 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Jean Honoré FragonardAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1761

drawing

Museum number: 1860,0414.214 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Jean Baptiste CorneilleAttributed to:Michel Corneille II |
Production date: 1642-1708

drawing

Museum number: 1873,1213.125 |
Producer name: BIOG19901 Drawn by:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1579-1651

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0413.172 |
Producer name: BIOG47520 Drawn by:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1770-1834

drawing

Museum number: SL,5236.54 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:Jan Breughel the ElderFormerly attributed to:Lucas van Uden |
Production date: 1583-1625

print

Museum number: 1874,0808.813 |
Producer name: BIOG38667 Print made by:Pier Francesco Mola |
Production date: 1630-1666

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan LievensPublished by:Frans van den Wyngaerde |
Production date: 1630-1640

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6834 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Metamorphoses Book I |
Museum number: 1947,1022.20 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1589

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2953 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: R,2.82 |
Producer name: BIOG33246 Print made by:Jacques Jordaens |
Production date: 1652

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.5013 |
Producer name: BIOG33246 Print made by:Jacques Jordaens |
Production date: 1652

print; playing-card

Title: Mercure et Argus Jeu des fables |
Museum number: 1849,0421.244 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1644

print

Museum number: M,12.41 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Print made by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1662 |
Production place: Printed in:Rome (city)

print; album; drawing book

Title: Figures d'academie |
Museum number: 1888,0117.3.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Sébastien Leclerc IPublished by:Nicolas I Langlois |
Production date: 1673 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mercurio y Argos |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3048 |
Producer name: Print made by:José VallejoAfter:Diego Velázquez |
Production date: 1862 |
Production place: Published in:Madrid (city)

print

Title: Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: 1948,0410.155 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Tibbetts Willmore |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mercury soothing Argus to sleep while he was by the orders of Juno guarding Io metamorphosed into a |
Museum number: 1917,1208.859 |
Producer name: Print made by:Maria Catharina PrestelAfter:Philipp Peter Roos |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mercury, Argos & Io |
Museum number: 1852,0705.211 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1765-1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1878,0511.999 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anthony WalkerPublished by:George Pearch |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: 1948,0410.157 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Tibbetts Willmore |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6829 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Six large upright landscapes with scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.1741 |
Producer name: BIOG50422 Print made by:Anthonie Waterloo |
Production date: 1640-1690

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6835 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: R,2.81 |
Producer name: BIOG35814 Print made by:Jan Lievens |
Production date: 1630-1640

print

Title: Mythological scenes |
Museum number: V,8.89 |
Producer name: After:Cherubino AlbertiAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6832 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6833 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6837 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1621

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6894 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Matheus van Uyttenbroeck |
Production date: 1610-1647

print

Title: Landscape with Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.5246 |
Producer name: BIOG39619 Print made by:Nicolaes Cornelisz. Moyaert |
Production date: 1615-1655

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2956 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print; playing-card

Title: Jeu des fables |
Museum number: 1871,0513.563-574 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1644

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6831 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Argus a Mercurio iugulatur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.204 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6828 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1610-1647

print

Title: Mythological scenes |
Museum number: 1874,0808.516 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cherubino AlbertiAfter:Polidoro da Caravaggio |
Production date: 1590

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2947 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1621

print; album

Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses |
Museum number: 2AA+,a.31.14 |
Producer name: BIOG18757 Print made by:Johann Wilhelm Baur |
Production date: 1641

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2952 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6840 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6830 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2960 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Matheus van Uyttenbroeck |
Production date: 1610-1647

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2958 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Matheus van Uyttenbroeck |
Production date: 1610-1647

print; book-illustration

Title: Isis et Argus Cabinet Favereau |
Museum number: 1973,0616.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis BloemaertPrint made by:Theodor Matham |
Production date: 1635-1638

print

Title: Prints in Imitation of Drawings |
Museum number: V,9.28 |
Producer name: Print made by:Arthur PondAfter:Giovanni Francesco Romanelli |
Production date: 1734

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1646 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pietro ParboniAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1800-1820

print

Title: Cabinet Praun |
Museum number: 1854,1020.1679 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Gottlieb PrestelAfter:Lorenzo Sabbatini |
Production date: 1776

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1647 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pietro ParboniAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1800-1820

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2948 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4700 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1878,0713.2473 |
Producer name: Print made by:J TimmsIntermediary draughtsman:Charles Daubigny |
Production date: 1839-1865

print

Title: Mercury and Argus The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1889,0724.121 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Tibbetts Willmore |
Production date: 1859-1861

print

Title: Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: 1852,0705.276 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Tibbetts Willmore |
Production date: 1841

print

Museum number: 1840,0808.30 |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Print made by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1662 |
Production place: Printed in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: U,3.230 |
Producer name: Print made by:Simone CantariniPublished by:Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi |
Production date: 1630-1648 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1895,1031.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:Adriaan SchoonebeekPublished by:Pieter van der Aa |
Production date: 1686 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1266 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gérard de LairessePublished by:Nicolaes Visscher I |
Production date: 1670

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1267 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gérard de LairessePublished by:Nicolaes Visscher I |
Production date: 1670

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.2078 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Joseph Wood |
Production date: 1746

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2949 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6836 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du |
Museum number: 1858,0417.1403 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Balthasar Anton Dunker |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Metamorphoses Book I |
Museum number: 1947,0412.3.17 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1589

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2950 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6510 |
Producer name: Print made by:Balthasar Anton DunkerPrint made by:Joseph C Maillet |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du |
Museum number: 1858,0417.1402 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Balthasar Anton Dunker |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Mercure, Argus et Io Tableaux de premier ordre anciens et modernes comp |
Museum number: 1877,1013.1767 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WaltnerAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1873 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1973,U.292 |
Producer name: BIOG29295 Print made by:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1583

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1914,0214.211 |
Producer name: Print made by:Bernard PicartAfter:Abraham van Diepenbeeck |
Production date: 1730-1733

print

Title: Mercurio matando a Argos Colección lithographica de cuadros del rey de Espa |
Museum number: 1858,0417.1080 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Gaspar Sensi |
Production date: 1826-1832 |
Production place: Printed in:Madrid (city)

print

Title: Mercury, Argos & Io |
Museum number: 1852,0705.212 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1765-1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: U,10.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph WoodAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1746

print

Museum number: 1851,1108.6 |
Producer name: BIOG165110 Print made by:Monogrammist T9 |
Production date: 1510-1520

print

Title: Wayfaring musicians |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.5799 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van de Velde IIPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1615-1641

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2944 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: Morte d'Argo |
Museum number: 1949,1008.114 |
Producer name: BIOG24580 Print made by:Giovanni David |
Production date: 1776

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.6838 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1621

print; book-illustration

Title: 'Ectypa' of Ploos van Amstel |
Museum number: 1856,0712.164 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis Ploos van AmstelPrint made by:Cornelis Brouwer |
Production date: 1765-1798

print

Title: Metamorphoses Book I |
Museum number: 1947,0412.3.19 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusPublished by:Claes Jansz. Visscher |
Production date: 1589

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2943 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2951 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2954 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2959 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1610-1647

print

Title: The story of Mercury and Argus |
Museum number: Sheepshanks.2945 |
Producer name: Print made by:Moyses van WtenbrouckPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1620-1626

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.41 |
Producer name: BIOG35814 Print made by:Jan Lievens |
Production date: 1630-1640

print

Museum number: Sheepshanks.2946 |
Producer name: BIOG49205 Print made by:Moyses van Wtenbrouck |
Production date: 1621