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Description: | This small painting shows a young and an old woman conversing over a selection of fruit that are laid out on the table in front of them. In composition and appearance it relates to Velasquez's intriguing canvases of Martha and Mary that convey a deeper significance than a scene of everyday life. It has been suggested that the two women represent the seasons of summer and winter, or that they represent the mythological story where Vertumnus disguised himself as an old woman in order to seduce the beautiful nymph Pomona, whose attribute is a curved fruit knife. | Subjects: | Pomona?); figure; everyday life; allegory (Summer mythology (Vertumnus Winter) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Snyers, Peeter (Flemish painter, 1681-1752) Æ Attributed to school of Previously attributed to Dutch School Previously attributed to Flemish School Previously attributed to Gillemans, Jan Pauwel (Flemish artist, 1651-1704) Previously attributed to Velázquez, Diego (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8358... | Go to resource |
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