Ceres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hendrick Goudt|Adam Elsheimer|Ovid

1646 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints

Mocking of Ceres, a nocturnal scene; Ceres drinks avidly from a jug of water given to her by an old woman holding a candle at a doorway; besides the elderly woman is Stellio, a naked youth, who points at Ceres; a burning torch rests on some wooden wheels; in the background a woman milks a cow.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hendrick Goudt|Adam Elsheimer|Ovid

Date

1646

Medium

Etching, only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1964