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Allegorical Scene

1635 · Národní Galerie, Prague

mythological

The subject of the scene is an illustration of the popular adage "Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus" (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would Freeze): without food (Ceres, the Roman god of agriculture) and wine (Bacchus), love (Venus) is left cold.

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Allegorical Scene

About the Artist

Simon de Vos

1603 – 1676

Flemish painter. In 1615 he became a pupil of Cornelis de Vos (no relation), with whom Jan Cossiers may have been a fellow-apprentice. By 1620 de Vos was a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke. For the next eight years he may either have worked in Rubens 's studio or have travelled abroad . The latter is more likely in view of the similarities between de Vos's oeuvre and that of Johann Liss, who was in Rome and Venice at that time. This hypothesis is supported by the italianizing characteristics evident in de Vos's early work.

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