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Vertumnus and Pomona

1613

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The story

In Ovid's Metamorphoses (book 14) the garden god Vertumnus, refused by the orchard nymph Pomona, visits her disguised as an old woman, praises her and pleads his own case; when he drops the disguise she yields.

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Object details

Title: Vertumnus and Pomona
Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Date: 1613
Culture: Dutch
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (SK-A-2217)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0903
Original image: 3000 × 1712 px
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License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Hendrick Goltzius. Vertumnus and Pomona. 1613. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (SK-A-2217). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0903/