Catalogue No. 184

Artist: Bloemaert, Abraham
Ceres

1564-1638
Head and shoulders, holding a reaping sickle, oil on panel in a painted stone circle. Tondo, 27 ins diameter

Collection Details
E Schapiro, London; bt 1943 from Drey, dealer, London; Whitfield Fine Art Gallery, 1993; acquired by Faringdon Collection, 1993.

Literature
M G Roethlisberger and M Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, 1993, p.39; M G Roethlisberger, ‘Early Abraham Bloemaert’ in Tableau, December 1994, pp.47–9, repd.

Exhibition Details
Naples, Fontainebleau e la Maniera Italiana, 1952, no.89 (exh cat pl. 77), as Frans Floris; Manchester City Art Gallery, Between Renaissance and Baroque, 1965, No.104 (exhibited with companion picture 181 as Floris).

Companion Picture
See No. 181.