La Dea Cerere

Portrait of Marguerite Henriette de La Briffe Le Bret as Ceres, three-quarter view, seated horizontally, looking forward, with ears of corn in her hair and in her right hand, a scythe in her left hand.

Original hand-coloured etching depiction of the goddess Ceres in the guise of the Countess of Selles, engraved by Claude Drevet, from the painting by H. Rigaud, painter of the French court of Catalan origins, dated 1712.

Below, left "Hyacinthe Rigaud pinx."; then French inscription of four lines in two columns "La faucille à la main [...] encor que de Coeurs."; right "Claud.s Drevet sculp. 1728; further down MAREL A Paris chez P. Drevet Graveur du Roy aux Galleries du Louvre."