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Mercury and Argos is an oil painting of mythological subject painted by Diego Velázquez for the Hall of Mirrors of the Royal Alcázar of Madrid around 1659, being one of his last works. Saved from the fire of 1734, it went to the Buen Retiro Palace and then to the Royal Palace of Madrid, where when it was inventoried in 1772 the increase in the fabric was noted, due to the addition of two bands, the one affecting its upper part being especially visible. approximately 25.5cm. In 1819 it entered the collections of the Prado Museum.
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