# Ceres and Bacchus, in Bartholomaeus Spranger's contemporaries

Bartholomaeus Spranger painted this in the 1600s, aged about 54. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1600s
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.805
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Bartholomaeus Spranger](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/bartholomaeus-spranger), Flemish, 1546–1611

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [A contemporary: Hieronymous Wierix](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/hieronymous-wierix?hang=749) (3 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=749) (94 works)
- [16th-century Flanders](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16-flanders?hang=749) (17 works)

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