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Description: | One of four oval paintings attributed to Biagio Rebecca that surmount George III pier-glasses made by Thomas Chippendale the Younger. The painting shows a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Vertumnus disguised himself as an old woman in order to seduce the beautiful Pomona, recognisable by the curved knife and fruit she holds. | Subjects: | Metamormorphoses mythology (Vertumnus XIV. 621-657) Pomona); literature (Ovid | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rebecca, Biagio (Italian painter, 1735-1808, active in Great Britain) Æ Attributed to Attributed to manner of Kauffmann, Angelica (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1741-1807) Previously attributed to Kauffmann, Angelica (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1741-1807) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8693... | Go to resource |
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