Vertumno seduz Pomona

At the centre, next to a tree, two figures have a conversation. The surrounding landscape offers an architectural set and a garden. The female character holds in her hand what seems to be a sickle. The incomplete inscription on the back (“La visita di [...] a Jupiter”) is once again wrong, as it does not identifies the mythological scene portrayed, in which Jupiter is not even present. It concerns the visit of Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons, to Pomona, one of the Hamadryades, the most dedicated one to the fruit trees of garden of Latium, which justifies her name (pomum, in Latin, stands for “fruit”). Vertumnus, who could change his form at will, was in love with Pomona and disguised himself as an old woman, which granted him the opportunity to get to her presence and even kiss her. This scene is described by Ovid in the Metamorphoses (14.654-660).