PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY | VERTUMNUS AND POMONA
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October 30, 04:21 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA
oil on copper
copper: 8⅞ by 11½ in.; 22.5 by 29.2 cm.
framed: 13¼ by 17⅛ in.; 33.7 by 43.5 cm.
Private collection, Gstaad, by 1999;
Thence by descent to the present collector, New York, 2009.
This painting is inspired by the works of Flemish masters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Pieter van Avont, and Hendrick van Balen. The subject of this painting derives from Ovid's Metamorphoses (XIV) and shows Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons, tricking Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman.