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Painting of a herd of cattle, sheep and goats beside a carved pedestal, with two figures and trees in a mountain landscape.

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Pieter van Bloemen's painting Mercury and Argus, held by the Hermitage Museum, shows a figure in a red cloak leaning on a staff beside a carved stone pedestal, with a companion playing pipes among a herd. White, brown and horned cattle, sheep and goats gather near water beneath dark trees, with a distant mountain range under a pale sky.

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