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Vertumnus and Pomona

c. 1650

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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.

Source, Theoi

Object details

Title: Vertumnus and Pomona
Artist: Caesar van Everdingen (attributed)
Date: c. 1650
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (75.PA.64)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0904
Original image: 3000 × 2240 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Caesar van Everdingen (attributed). Vertumnus and Pomona. c. 1650. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (75.PA.64). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0904/