Ceres sows seeds and walks behind a goat-drawn plough, at right a man draped with a lion skin grasps a woman's garment and a female satyr receives an embrace from another figure, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances
Artist: Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois
Artist bio: French, Mantes-sur-Seine ca. 1598–1642 Paris|French, baptized Chartres, 1588–1647 Paris
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: French|French
Date: ca. 1617–25
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 2 15/16 x 10 5/16 in. (7.4 x 26.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession year: 2012
Tags: Female Nudes|Ceres|Satyrs|Goats