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    • Woman with a Pink, early 1660s
    Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
    Oil on canvas

    36 1/4 x 29 3/8 in. (92.1 x 74.6 cm)
    Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.622)

    The unidentified woman in this warm but somber portrait offers a pink (or carnation), symbolic of marriage, to her husband in Man with a Magnifying Glass (14.40.621). Rembrandt's style in these canvases is similar to that in The Jewish Bride (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) and other works of the early to mid-1660s. In a portrait by Jan Victors dated 1651, the same woman wears contemporary attire, which however reveals the predilection for jewelry that is suggested here. The gesture and to some extent the costume and expression in the present picture recall Rembrandt's Flora of about 1654 (26.101.10).

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    This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.
  • Haskell, Francis. "The Benjamin Altman Bequest." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 3 (1970).
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  • Hoving, Thomas P. F. "Director's Choice." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 28, no. 5 (January, 1970).
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  • Woman with a Pink, early 1660s
    Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
    Oil on canvas

    36 1/4 x 29 3/8 in. (92.1 x 74.6 cm)
    Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.622)