Nicolaes Maes, Dutch, 1634-1693
Title: Vertumnus and Pomona
Date: 1673
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
48.5 x 60.4 cm
Signed: lower right: N. Maes, 1673
Credit Line: Purchased, 1894
Object Number: NGI.347
Label TextBorn in Dordrecht, Maes trained with Rembrandt in Amsterdam in the late 1640s–early 1650s. After his return to his native town, he depicted biblical and mythological subjects before becoming a successful painter of genre scenes and portraits. The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which tells the story of Vertumnus, the god of seasons, who tried to woo the beautiful gardener Pomona in various disguises — his final attempt was in the role of an old woman. When even this failed, he revealed his true shape and Pomona was conquered. The subject enjoyed great popularity among seventeenth-century Dutch painters.

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