A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man
Cleveland Museum of Art

A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) · c. 1740

black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The flower the woman in this drawing plucks from the bouquet—a “pink”—was associated with marriage and love in 18th-century Europe.

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