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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man

c. 1740
black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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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