# Terminal Figure of Ceres

- By: Carroll Beckwith (born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917)
- Date: 1911
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (34.9 x 26.0 cm.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1724)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6a5200a8fe36e69bab72f2cf6a22c6f3.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting shows a statue of Ceres in a garden of Versailles, France. Ceres was the Roman goddess of harvest and fertility, and among her symbols are sheaves of grain. Carroll Beckwith created this painting in September, and the scene glows with the vibrant light of autumn.