print
- Museum number
- W,3.133
- Description
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Vertumnus and Pomona; the former dressed as an old woman, meeting Pomona in her orchard; around them, Cupids shooting arrows, and a winged reclining nymph; two garlands of fruits in the upper part. c.1542/43
Etching
- Production date
- 1540-1545
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 356 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a lost preparatory drawing for a fresco decorating the pavilion of Pomona in Fontainebleau (c.1533). See 'École de Fontainebleau', Paris 1972, cat. No.315, and 'Rosso Fiorentino', Washington 1987, cat. No.65. The fresco, which was probably executed after Rosso's death in the early 1540s, adorned the west wall of the small structure, adjacent to Primaticcio's 'Garden of Pomona' (W,3.7). The stucco frame surrounding the fresco was also etched by Fantuzzi (1850,0527.141). Jenkins 2017.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no indication of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,3.133