2-645-747 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'La Vendimia', (The Grape Harvest or Autumn), 1786, (c1934). Dressed in yellow clothes symbolising autumn, a young man offers a cluster of black grapes to a lady. A boy is eager to reach the offered fruit. A woman stands next to them, holding a grape basket on her head, as in the classical allegory of the goddess Ceres. The grape harvest is an allegory of autumn. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]