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Two Girls with Flowers by a Statue of Cupid
Also titled Twee meisjes met bloemen bij een beeld van Cupido
Pieter van der Werff (Kralingen-Ambacht, 1665–1722)
1713
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 38.5 cm x width 29 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This painting may be an allegory of the sense of smell. Two girls decorate a statue of Cupid with flowers, while the god of love himself smells a blossom. There seems to be no iconographical connection between this painting and its companion, A Girl Drawing and a Boy near a Statue of Venus(elsewhere on this wall). Pairs of paintings were extremely popular in the 18th century because they lent themselves to a symmetrical display.
