Mythological scene "Cup of Ceres". Frans Floris de Vriendt

Frans Floris de Vriendt - Flemish painter ( 1517 - Antwerp 1570g). Member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp. 

The mythological scene "Cup of Ceres". Frans Floris de Vriendt. A triangular composition of two women and a faun unfolding towards them is complemented by a cupid and a servant with fruits. In the center of the triangle is a transparent vessel, compositional and semantic center. Its symbolic content, probably the spirit of love and life, is transmitted and gratefully received. The line of gifts produces a perpendicular diagonal of the axis gifts. That combines the material and spiritual principles of gifts.

Provenance: The first mention of work was noted in 1618 with inventory number 484 in one of Munichs private residences as the work of the Tizian-Werkstatt seminary. In 1792, mention of the acquisition of a painting from Kurfürst Carl Theodor for the Bavarian State Assembly of Painting with inventory number 10390. 

Attribution: Copy of Dr. Ernst Wengenmayer, Munich December 7, 1962 Authenticity of the painting was carried out, authorship of the Flemish painter was revealed: Frans Floris de Vriendt