# Mercury and Psyche [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VRIES, Adriaen de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Bronze, height 215 cm ## Commentary Adriaen de Vries's first documented independent work is the over life-size bronze group of Mercury and Psyche, a work that owes much in composition and style to similar two-figure groups by Giambologna. This group was executed in Prague for Emperor Rudolf II. It was taken as booty by the Swedish army, then transported to France by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1654 after her abdication. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Turkish War in Hungary]() - [Apollo]() - [Apollo]() - [Bacchus Discovering Ariadne on Naxos]() - [Bust of Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Cain killing Abel]() - [Christ at the Column.]() - [Gladiator]() - [Hercules and the Centaur Fighting]() - [Hercules Fountain \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()