Taste crowned by Venus, Bacchus and Ceres, and applauded by Apollo, Diana and the Four Seasons
inscribed on a feigned stone cartouche 'GVSTVM.CORONANT./BACCHVS, VENVS.ET.CERES./APPLAVDVT./ANNI,QUATUOR,TEMPOR'
on panel
27 5/8 x 35 7/8in. (70.1 x 91.1cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Fischer, Lucerne, 17-18 June 1977, lot 337, as Jan van Kessel
Lot Essay
The landscape and fruit are the work of two other hands close in style to Jan Brueghel II