Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)
Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)

An Allegory of the Five Senses; An elegant company making merry in a garden

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Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)
An Allegory of the Five Senses; An elegant company making merry in a garden
oil on panel
52 x 82.5 cm.
Provenance
with St. Anna-Galerie, Zürich, by 1955, as E. van de Velde.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1995, lot 283, as Studio of David Vinckboons (£16,100).

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Lot Essay

In this Allegory the sense of Sight is personified by a gentleman with a spyglass and a lady with a mirror standing by a statue of an aiming archer; Hearing by a music-making couple and a deer; Touch by a fumbling couple with a bird on the back of a chair; Smell by a lady, with a dog on her arm, being offered a rose by a gentleman; and Taste by a wine drinking youth with a monkey on the ground.
The painting has been attributed in the past to the Dutch poet and playwrighter Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero, as it apparently was monogrammed 'GB' (lower centre).
The composition is also known from a drawing by David Vinckboons in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.

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