Ceres pleading with Jove for the return of Prosperpina, from Ovid, "Me

A pen and brown wash drawing in which a seated, draped figure reaches up toward a second figure enthroned on clouds at the left, while a third figure, lower right, leans in from a cloud bank. Loose wash shadows model the drapery and billowing clouds, with a diagonal streak of light crossing the upper sky.

Look closer: A faint inscription in pen in the lower left corner.

Artist

Thomas Carwitham

Date

1713–33

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3674 × 2625 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2014