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Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois

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

ca. 1617–25
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7.4 × 26.2 cm (2.9 × 10.3 in)

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