Pomona Surprised by Vertumnus and Other Suitors from The Story of Vertumnus and Pomona

1. Jacobo Luis Stuart Fitz-James (died 1881), 8th Duke of Berwick, 15th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Madrid, Spain; sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, Duke of Berwick and Alba sale, April 7-20, 1877, lot 36 (as “Le Primtemps [sic]”; The rest of the suite was lots 32-35; the group was called “Sujets allégoriques ou saisons”). Possibly Baron Frédéric Emile D’Erlanger (d. 1894), Paris, by 1880 (with three other pieces from the suite). French and Company, New York, by 1926; sold to William Randolph Hearst (died 1951), Mar. 26, 1926; ownership transferred to International Studio Art Corporation (Hearst holding company); sold to the Art Institute, 1940.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, Exposition Nationale Belge, 1880.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

• H.-F. Keuller and A.-J. Wauters, Les tapisseries historiées à l’Exposition nationale belge de 1880 (F. Hayez, 1881), 17-18.
• Meyric R. Rogers, “A Brussels Tapestry of the Mid-Sixteenth Century,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 34, 6 (Nov. 1940): 92.
• “Art Throughout America/Chicago: Flemish Tapestry” Art News 39 (Jan. 4, 1941): 14 (ill.).
• Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, “Note sur une Tenture inedite de l’Histoire de Phaéton,” Revue belge d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art 20, 1 (1951): 133-35.
• Cecilia Paredes, “Des jardins de Venus aux jardins de Pomone: Note sur l’iconographie des décors des tapisseries de Vertumne et Pomone,” Revue belge d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art 68 (1999): 78, n. 19.
• Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (Thames and Hudson, 1999), 113, 129.
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens, “Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.” In Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, ed. Koenraad Brosens (2003): 173, 182, n. 9.
• Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 94-102, cat. 11 (ill.).