This painting is amongst Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen's most successful collaborations. It depicts Venus, Bacchus and Ceres enjoying the plentiful bounty of a summer’s harvest that continues apace in the fields beyond. The subject provided the perfect marriage of Van Balen's idealised and highly polished figures with the intricate handling of Brueghel's brush for the landscape and still-life elements,
