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02-06-2026
Peter Paul Rubens

Siegen, Westphalia (Germany), 1577 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1640

Peter Paul Rubens See author's file

Vertumnus and Pomona

1636 - 1637. Oil on panel.
Room 079

According to Ovid´s Metamorphosis, Vertumnus had to disguise himself as a woman in order to gain Pomona´s love. Rubens chose to depict the moment when, having removed his disguise, Vertumnus declares his love to the attractive young woman. She holds a sickle in her right hand, which alludes to her condition as a deity related to the fruits of nature. That is also why the scene is set in a garden. This sketch was for one of the paintings intended for the Torre de la Parada that was painted by Jacob Jordaens.

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Inventory number
P002044
Author
Peter Paul Rubens
Title
Vertumnus and Pomona
Date
1636 - 1637
Technique
Oil
Support
Panel
Dimension
Height: 26.5 cm; Width: 38.3 cm
Series
Torre de la Parada
Provenance
Manuel Álvarez de Toledo y Lesparre, 12th Duke of Pastrana, 1886; bequest of María Dionisia Vives y Zires, Duchess of Pastrana, 1889
Entry date
1889

Bibliography +

Rooses, Max, Rubens. S. VIe et Ses Oeuvres, Flammarion, Paris, 1903, pp. 596-599.

Alpers, Svetlana, The Decoration of The Torre de la Parada, Corpus rubenianum Ludwig Burchard T IX, Amberes, 1971, pp. 266-267.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de pinturas. Escuela flamenca, Museo del Prado; Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1975, pp. 304.

Held, Julius S., The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens : a critical catalogue..., The National Gallery of Art, Princeton, 1980, pp. 299-300.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, El siglo de Rubens en el Museo del Prado: catálogo razonado, Prensa Ibérica, Barcelona, 1995, pp. 1038.

Vergara, Alejandro, The Presence of Rubens in Spain., I II, A Bell & Howell Company, Ann Arbor, 1999, pp. 554.

Posada Kubissa, Teresa, Rubens en la colección Pastrana-Infantado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXI, 2003, pp. 24-40.

García Gual, C., 'Relato mítico y momento pictórico. Rubens y Ovidio'. En Historias inmortales, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 281-298.

Classical mythology in the Netherlands in the age of Renaiss..., Peeters, Amberes, 2009.

Maurer, Gudrun, Goya: lo bello y lo recóndito, La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 198.

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta Silver, Larry, Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain, Ashgate, Surrey, 2014, pp. 76 Lám.20 fg.3.20.

G. Navarro, C.; Perdices, A., La mirada del otro: escenarios para la diferencia, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2017, pp. 75 n.19.

Vergara, Alejandro, 'P.P.Rubens. Serie de la Torre de la Parada', En: Rubens pintor de bocetos, Museo Nacional del Prado,, Madrid, 2018, pp. 208-222 n.69.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 867.
Autor P.P. Rubens / 867. Un cuadro titulado 'Aracne y Minerva' / Alto 0,28 ancho 0,38.

Inscriptions +

T.867.
Inscribed in blue. Front, lower right corner

B51
Inscribed with chalk. Back, Upper left area

No37/Coleccion/Pastrana
Handwritten label in black ink. Back, Upper central area

2044
Inscribed with chalk. Back, central area

MUSÉES ROY[rota]/EXPOSITIO[rota]/Titre: Vertumio[rota]/Propriétaire:Prado[rota]/Adrese: Espagne
Handwritten label. Back, lower left area

37
Inscribed. Back, Upper right area

A-4
Inscribed. Back, Upper central area

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Captive Beauty. Fra Angelico to Fortuny
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21.05.2013 - 10.11.2013

Rubens
Madrid
05.11.2010 - 23.01.2011

Velázquez, Rubens, Claudio de Lorena y la pintura en la corte de Felipe IV
Bonn
07.10.1999 - 23.01.2000

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Room 079 (On Display)

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