After repeated requests for a state commission and Claudel’s crushed hopes, the work was finally carved in marble thanks to the Comtesse de Maigret in 1905. She leans slightly to the left, and supports herself with her left hand.

Pomona, the beautiful wood nymph cared nothing for the woods but cared only for her fruit filled gardens and orchards. The subject thus moved from Hindu to Greek … Even as she collaborated on Rodin's major commissions in the studio, Claudel continued her own creative work, which the master supported and attempted to promote. Pomona and Vertumnus . At his point, it was entitled Vertumnus and Pomona.
Pomona fenced her garden so the rude young men couldn't trample her plants and vines. Drapery lies across her lap. The bronze, cast by Eugène Blot, was shown the same year at the Salon d’Automne under the title Abandon. Find more prominent pieces of mythological painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. ‘Vertumnus and Pomona’ was created in c.1520 by Jacopo Pontormo in Mannerism (Late Renaissance) style. Shakuntala (Vertumnus and Pomona)1905 by Camille Claudel. In 1774 Louis-Marin Bonnet developed yet another technical innovation: a printed gold leaf border. The god Vertumnus transformed himself into the form of a ragged old woman to gain her confidence.

She kept her orchards closed because she wanted to rid of the men who were attracted to her good looks. The lovers are connected as …

Claudel decided that her first major project would be an ambitious piece celebrating the triumph of love. Boucher was fond of the subject and had already portrayed it on several occasions, including an overdoor for the royal Château de la Muette in 1749, a design for the Beauvais tapestry manufactory in 1757, and within an oval medallion for the Gobelins tapestries … Pomona is seated on an ivy-clad tree-stump. Janinet, who had been Bonnet's student, adopted …
Her right hand, in which she holds a sickle, passes in front of her body and rests on a basket of fruits and flowers. Similar in composition to Rodin's Eternal Idol (1889), whilst in his sculpture we are confronted by highly polished sex and desire, here Claudel depicts love as a power of the mind, as well as an attraction between bodies. Statue group in marble representing Vertumnus and Pomona.