Cibeles and the seasons within a festoon of fruit

Two nymphs and a crowd of small cupids hold up a heavy garland of fruit around an oval medallion. Inside it the goddess of earth and agriculture receives an offering, crowned by Spring while the other seasons bring what they have grown, and the cupids on the frame carry attributes of the signs of the zodiac, so the whole panel turns on the passing of the year. The Prado's title calls her Cybele. The Prado's own catalogue text calls her Ceres. Who painted the fruit is unsettled as well. The museum credits the picture to van Balen with Jan Brueghel the Younger and dates it 1615 to 1618, which would put Brueghel at 14 when it was begun, since he was born in 1601. Other accounts give the garland to his father, Jan Brueghel the Elder, van Balen's usual partner in work of this kind.