Vertumnus, in the figure of an old woman, sits opposite Pomona. With her pruning knife, Pomona has cut the flowers from a bunch of carnations. One flower she holds in her hand, the others lie on the ground.
| Artist |
Frederick Bloemaert
RKD
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Abraham Bloemaert
RKD
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Nicolaes I Visscher
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| Title | The Smell, from the series The Five Senses |
| Date | ca. 1632 - 1670 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Odoratus |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: 4 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-KK-4 |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KK-4 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11521/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G41
flowers
Iconclass
25G41(CARNATION) flowers: carnation Iconclass 31A3 the (five) senses Iconclass 31A33 smell, smelling (one of the five senses) Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 31D17 old woman Iconclass 47I135 pruning Iconclass 47I15(PRUNING-KNIFE) agricultural implements: pruning-knife Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 54C4 Temptation; 'Tentatione' (Ripa) Iconclass 96A18 (story of) Vertumnus Iconclass 96A1821 Vertumnus and Pomona Iconclass 96A18211 Vertumnus, in the guise of an old woman, wooing Pomona Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
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