Detail of Woman with a Pink by Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2010

Woman with a Pink

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: ca. 1660–64

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 29 3/8 in. (92.1 x 74.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

Accession Number: 14.40.622

Gallery Label:

This picture and its companion, "Man with a Magnifying Glass" (14.40.621), date from the early 1660s. If the identification of the male sitter as Pieter Haringh is correct, then the woman is his wife Elisabeth Delft (ca. 1620–1679). About a decade earlier, in 1651, the same couple was depicted in conventional clothing by the former Rembrandt pupil Jan Victors (1619–after January 1676). The pink, or carnation, is a traditional symbol of love and marriage.


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