# Two Girls with Flowers by a Statue of Cupid

- By: Pieter van der Werff (Kralingen-Ambacht, 1665–1722)
- Date: 1713
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 38.5 cm x width 29 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-471--3a93fbc6cdf5a4123941d969e8a0d3ab)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/868d42309186c3bc0eb6153ec65c7541.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.