Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink, Barthel Bruyn the Younger

This young woman offers a pink (or dianthus, related to the carnation) to someone on her right, probably her betrothed. The sweet-smelling pink symbolized a young woman's hopes for marriage. At her waist is a gold girdle, or belt, from which hangs a pomander, a pierced container for sweet-smelling herbs to combat the foul smells of crowded cities. Bruyn was a portraitist to the prosperous merchants of cologne, germany. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between 1660 and 1669 (Baroque). Place of creation: Cologne, Germany. Dimensions: height: 43.6 cm (17.1 in); width: 35.6 cm (14 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink - Walters 371847FXD

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Author: Barthel Bruyn the Younger (1530–)Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/

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