[1] It is considered a wedding portrait, but a pendant of her husband, Diedrich von Brömsen, is unknown.

The visible amount of gold in her dress shows an ostentatious display that may be the result of the 9 October 1641 confirmation of nobility rights for the families of Warendorp, Wickede, Brömsen, Luneburg, Kerkring, and Stiten by Emperor Ferdinand III.

Deathbed portraits were common for rich families at the time, and for children in the Netherlands, sometimes the deceased was posed to look alive.

Other portraits Hirt made of her contemporaries were: This portrait was selected by Yvonne Deslandres for her book 20,000 Years of Fashion to illustrate the backward fashion of German provincial weddings, and the unusual cap was featured on the cover.

[3] In the 1990s this painting enjoyed some notoriety as the headdress was considered to be the model for the headdress of the wedding costume design by Eiko Ishioka for the role of Lucy Westenra portrayed by Sadie Frost in Bram Stoker's Dracula.