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
Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois
ca. 1617–25
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 2 15/16 x 10 5/16 in. (7.4 x 26.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.251.9
Tags
Female NudesCeresSatyrsGoats
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...