Никола Бенин
In 1484, the future count Jan van Egmond married Magdalena van Werdenburg, when he was forty-six and she was twenty years old. Evidently these portraits depict an older couple; rather than celebrating the marriage, they were probably painted upon Jan’s death. The wizened count wears his highest honor, a collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, while Magdalena is depicted as a widow, with a black band around her wedding ring. She holds a pink, a symbol of marriage, but unlike the one in a nearby painting (49.7.23), the flower is turned downward, as if to acknowledge Jan’s passing.
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