Follower of Jan Brueghel I

The sense of Smell: a reclining nymph in a garden holding a rose

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Follower of Jan Brueghel I
The sense of Smell: a reclining nymph in a garden holding a rose
The support is branded with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp
oil on panel
40.1 x 61.3 cm
The staffage is probably the work of another hand

Lot Essay

Probably from a series of five depicting the Senses. Compare with the series by Jan Brueghel I and Peter Paul Rubens in the Prado, Madrid (See K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel I, 1979, pp.611/2, n0327-331, fig.399, 415, 420, 422 and 425.

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