The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Ceres and Bacchus
1600s
copy after Bartholomaeus Spranger
(Flemish, 1546–1611)
Framed: 197.2 x 133.7 x 9.5 cm (77 5/8 x 52 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 163.5 x 100 cm (64 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Holden Collection 1916.805
Location: not on view
Description
This painting is a copy of a print by Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628), originally based on a painting by Spranger. Spranger often used the iconography of Ceres and Bacchus, two important agricultural deities. Muller's print has the Latin inscription Sine Cerere et Bacchio friget Venus, which translates to "without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold." The motto indicates that Love, represented by Venus, is impossible without the nourishment of food and drink, as the deities of grain and wine walk hand in hand.- James Jackson Jarves; Mrs. Liberty E. Holden,Cleveland, 1884.Holden Collection, 1916.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 37-39; Reproduced: p. 38 archive.org
- Boston, 1883 "American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Manufactures: "Jraves Collection" no. 421.The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the CMA," no. 106.Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 27.
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