Bramer, The Mocking of Ceres, 1619-1627 Old Masters pleasure and advantage of it

pleasure and advantage of it

and was intended as a practical manual for professional weavers

reinforcing control over transatlantic trade and weakening France’s colonial influence

The facial type of Diogenes

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Bramer, The Mocking of Ceres, 1619-1627 Old Masters pleasure and advantage of itThe key sheet from his dispersed drawing book Leonaert Bramer (1596 1674). Ceres Seeking Her Daughter (The Mocking of Ceres); [caption by the artist: Dat is mijn teckens boeck]. Rome?, ca. 1610 1627. Drawing with brush and grey ink, grey wash and heightened with opaque white on blue grey laid paper washed light brown. Faded signature: L Bram. 15. 5 x 17. 8 cm. (image). On a folio sheet, 30,5 x 21 cm., watermarked anchor in a circle (as other drawings