Vertumnus and Pomona
1620 · Private collection
mythologicalThe Flemish landscape painter Abraham Govaerts belongs to the generation of painters influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder, whose pupil or fervent admirer he must have been. Pomona, the classical goddess of fruit, and Vertumnus, the god of transformation, are the main figures in an episode in Ovid's Metamorphoses (XIV, 608-697). Vertemnus, disguised as an old woman, tries to seduce Pomona, goddess of the fruit-gardens.
