Live Auction 3747Old Master Paintings
Attributed to Emanuel de Witte (Alkmaar c. 1617-1691/2 Amsterdam)
Lot 56 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JACQUES GOUDSTIKKER

Attributed to Emanuel de Witte (Alkmaar c. 1617-1691/2 Amsterdam)

Vertumnus and Pomona

Closed3 June 2015

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Attributed to Emanuel de Witte (Alkmaar c. 1617-1691/2 Amsterdam)
Vertumnus and Pomona
oil on panel
13 ¾ x 11 ¾ in. (34.9 x 30 cm.)

Jonkheer van Karnebeek, The Hague.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1924; inv. 1432.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1948.
In the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Specialist note

Traditionally depicted in a garden or in a landscape, Vertumnus and Pomona appear here in an interior without any recognizable attributes, such as, a sickle for the nymph Pomona. The figure of Pomona, a naked young woman seen from the back, can be traced back to a picture of the same subject by Cornelis Cornelisz. Van Haarlem (present whereabouts unknown). This composition inspired, among others, Emanuel de Witte's Vertumnus and Pomona, dated 1644, in Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam and Caesar van Everdingen's Vertumnus and Pomona, c.1637-1640, in Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).