Lot 152: Vertumnus and Pomona

RICHARD VAN ORLEY II (BRUSSELS 1663-1732)
Vertumnus and Pomona
with inscriptions 'Pomone & Vertumne voyez cette vigne flexible marié à ce jeune ormeau: l'arbre étendant au loin ect... Demoustier. lettres à Emilie sur la mythologie.' (verso of the frame)
bodycolor heightened with gum arabic on vellum
11 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (283 x 296 mm.)

This subject was engraved by van Orley and the composition is close to our drawing. In the print van Orley has added a servant who offers some grapes to Pomona ( Richard van Orley Bruxelles 1663-1732 , exhib. cat., Brussels, 2003, cat. 1, illus.).
Another miniature on vellum of the same subject (unknown location) but with a different composition is dated 1690 ( op. cit. , no. M1).