Landscape with Mercury and the Dishonest Woodman . Salvator Rosa
about 1663
Oil on canvas
125.7 x 202.1 cm
Acquisition credit Bought, 1837
Inventory number NG84
Location Room 32
Art route(s) B
From Aesop’s Fables , Mercury takes pity on a woodsman who has accidentally dropped his axe into a river. He retrieves two axes from the water, one gold and one silver; the honest woodsman claims neither as his own, so Mercury gives him both as a reward, A dishonest woodsman swears that he too has dropped his axe in the water. The god denies him the axe.
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