Allegory of Autumn (Vertumus and Pomona)

Hendrick Schoock and Gerard Hoet the Elder (1630 – after 1770 and 1648 – 1733)

Counterpart to « Allegory of Spring (Flora with Putt) »

one signed “G. Hoet – H. Schoock”
Oil on Canvas
103 × 133,5 cm

Both painters formed in 1696 a drawing-academy in Utrecht. A similar “Allegory of Autumn” is in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.