MOREELSE, Paulus
(b. 1571, Utrecht, d. 1638, Utrecht)

Vertumnus and Pomona

1625-30
Oil on canvas, 130 x 114 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

In this painting Moreelse combined a pastoral idyll with a mythological scene, since this story from Ovid's Metamorphoses is also a glorification of the unspoilt rural life.