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A 1627 painting by the Spanish artist Juan Van der Hamen y León (1596–1631), known today as “Offering to Flora,” contains an overlooked visual joke. In its foreground, a depiction of a heliotropic sunflower appears in close proximity to a representation of iridescent shot fabric. Both were known in the period as tornasol, and both were associated variously with constancy and change. This article argues that by juxtaposing these homonyms, Van der Hamen’s painting prompted aristocratic viewers in Madrid to contemplate contradictory behavioral strategies for securing favor at court that were forged by debates about the values of mutability itself.