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A Statue of Ceres is an oil on oak panel by Peter Paul Rubens, created c. 1615. It shows putti offering garlands to a statue of the Roman fertility goddess Ceres. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in St Petersburg.[1]
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It was sold in The Hague for 1210 guilders in 1760 and eight years later was acquired in Brussels for the Hermitage from Carl de Coben's collection.[2]
References
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- ^ (in Polish) M. Warszawska Peter Paul Rubens wyd. Firma Księgarska Jacek i Krzysztof Olesiuk, Warszawa 2006 ISBN 83-7423-385-0