Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus: Bacchus

Bacchus is depicted as a muscular youth with an elaborate crown of grapes, holding a shallow drinking bowl toward the sky while looking downward with a slight smile. To his right, a young satyr or attendant clutches bunches of grapes, set against a backdrop of distant mountains. The composition is enclosed in an oval frame, with the corners of the print featuring satyr masks and ornate wine goblets.

This print belongs to a series illustrating the proverb 'Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes,' connecting physical sustenance to the power of love. In the late Renaissance Neoplatonic tradition, Bacchus also represented the 'divine madness' or Dionysian frenzy described by Marsilio Ficino as a necessary state for spiritual elevation.