Plaque with Allegory of Summer

1600-1630 (Baroque)

18 cm 13.5 cm 1 cm

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While harvesters work away under a cloudy sky, a nude woman with shafts of wheat in her hair lies in the foreground. She is Ceres, goddess of agricultural abundance, here also personifying summer. The surface is carefully worked to contrast the round softness of Ceres's body...

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13277
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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