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| Keywords: Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink - Walters 371847.jpg 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 between 1660 1669 Baroque oil on panel cm 43 6 35 6 accession number 37 1847 15632 Henry Walters Baltimore 1911 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin Cologne Germany Walters Art Museum license Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Bartholomäus Bruyn II Portraits with bow-shaped top Portraits holding carnation Pomanders | ||||
