paintings were usually collaborations between a still life and a figure painter.<ref name=garland>[http://www.hnanews.org/archive/2012/11/vl_merriam0912.html Ursula Härting, Review of Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image]</ref> Close collaboration between artists with different specialities was also a common practice in Rome. There are two portrait paintings attributed to Voet that use the portrait in a garland device. They are portraits of women, one in a garland of flowers, the other in a garland of fruit. The Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as a member of the Colonna family was originally in the Colonna collection and as a result it is believed it depicts a member of the Colonna family (Auctioned at Christie's on 29 October 2015 in London, lot 99). As in other garland paintings, the garland can be seen as carrying various symbolic connotations. The flowers allude to the sitter's beauty and youth, which are in full bloom. A branch of lilies, depicted in the upper right, refers to her chastity. Voet's works were widely disseminated through copies by the Roman painter Pietro Veglia and engravings by the Flemish engraver Albertus Clouwet. The Roman publisher Giovanni Giacomo Rossi included Voet's portraits of Cardinals in the publication Effigies Cardinalium nunc viventum. References and notes Bibliography Francesco Petrucci, Ferdinand Voet (1639–1689) detto Ferdinando de' Ritratti, Ugo Bozzi Editore, Roma 2005 Francesco Petrucci, exhibition catalog Ferdinand Voet. Ritrattista di Corte tra Roma e l’Europa del Seicento, Roma, Castel Sant’Angelo, De Luca Editori, Roma 2005 Francesco Petrucci, Pittura di Ritratto a Roma. Il Seicento, 3 voll., Andreina & Valneo Budai Editori, Roma 2008, ad indicem Francesco Petrucci, Ferdinand Voet. Ritratto di Pietro Banchieri in veste di "bella"'', in "Quaderni del Barocco", 6, Ariccia 2009 External links 1639 births 1700 deaths Artists from Antwerp Flemish Baroque painters Flemish portrait painters Members of the Bentvueghels Court painters