Vertumnus and Pomona, Jan Tengnagel, 1617

Identification

Title(s)

Vertumnus and Pomona

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4699

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, lower left, on the stone under Pomona’s foot: ‘Aº. 1617 / J Tengnagel fecit’

Description

Vertumnus en Pomona. In een tuin zitten Vertumnus en Pomona met elkaar in gesprek; de oude vrouw spreekt en maakt handgebaren. De jonge vrouw zit luisterend op een kruiwagen met een sikkel in de hand, rechts tuingereedschap (gieter, hark, spade, zeef).

Creation

Artist

painter: Jan Tengnagel

Dating

1617

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on copper

Material

Measurements

support: height 21.4 cm × width 29.4 cm
depth 2.5 cm

Subject

What

Vertumnus, in the guise of an old woman, wooing Pomona

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of D.H. Cevat, Guernsey

Acquisition

gift 1977

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; ? sale, Willem Smits (†) et al., The Hague (H.J. Doorschoot), 18 May 1785, no. 175, as Lastman (‘Pomona en Vertumnus in een Tuin bezigt, uitvoerig geschildert [...]; op koper, hoog 7. breet 91/2 duim [18.3 x 24.8 cm]’);...; sale, E.W. Johnson (†) (Chichester), London (Christie’s), 16 November 1874, no. 506,{The lot number is inscribed on the reverse of the copper plate.} to Atkins;...; collection Daan H. Cevat, St Peter Port, Guernsey, 1967;{Leiden 1968, p. 31, no. 48.} by whom donated to the museum, 1977; on loan to the Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, since 2004

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 365, 366
Rembrandt and the female nude, Eric Jan Sluijter, p. 208, afb. 176
Dawn of the Golden Age : northern Netherlandish art 1580-1620 [ : 1 1993a], Ger C.M. Luijten, , , , Marijn Schapelhouman
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 86
Vertumnus en Pomona door Hendrick Goltzius (1613) en Jan Tengnagel (1617) : Constanten en contrasten in vorm en inhoud, Eric Jan Sluijter
De tuin als lentesymbool
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 31, afb. 1
E.J. Sluijter, 'Ovidius' Herscheppingen herschapen, over de popularisering van mythologische thematiek in beeld en woord', De zeventiende eeuw nr. 23 (2007), p. 56 + afb. p. 55
E. Haverkamp Begemann in: Kunstchronik 22 (1969), p. 282, afb. 2a.
D.G. Carter, 'A Vertumnus and Pomona by Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout', Bulletin Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis 53 (1966), p. 42, 44, 45, afb. 5.

Persistent URL

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