Soarching for her daughter Proserpine, Ceres is offered a drink at a humble cottage and is mocked by a boy whom she will transform into a lizard (Ovid, Metamorphoses, V). The composition derives loosely from Adam Elsheimer's lost 'Mocking of Ceres' engraved by Hendrik Goudt.
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Imitator of: Schalcken, Godfried After: Elsheimer, Adam
