Boucher - Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the… by François Boucher

Painting of Mercury on a cloud gesturing to nymphs cradling an infant beside goats and a rocky waterfall landscape.

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Boucher - Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs, c. 1732 - 1734, François Boucher (1732), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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François Boucher's painting shows the winged god Mercury seated on a cloud above a group of reclining nymphs, gesturing toward them while holding a caduceus. A small child is cradled among the women in the foreground, beside a wooden vessel, goats, and a rocky grotto with a waterfall.

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Date

1732

Medium

Museum

Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

Themes

Mythology