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| Keywords: Dutch - Plaque with Allegory of Summer - Walters 5365.jpg conj or Netherlands 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 with the crisp thin edges of the foliage and wheat The composition may have been inspired by an engraving by the Flemish engraver Johan Sadeler of Summer one of The Four Seasons This plaque was probably also part of such a series between 1600 1650 Baroque gilt copper cm 13 7 18 accession number 53 65 13277 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Netherlands Walters Art Museum license Baroque sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Ceres Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
