The Senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell and Touch

Details

After David Teniers II
The Senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell and Touch
oil on copper
7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (18.1 x 14.2 cm.)
(4)a set of four

Provenance

with Needham's Antiques, New York, where acquired in 1950 by Peggy and David Rockefeller, Hudson Pines, Westchester, New York.

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Lot Essay

These copper panels represent four of the five senses and are executed after engravings made in 1736 by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-1783) of a series of paintings by Teniers in the collection of Jeanne Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736). Missing from the present set is the sense of taste, which Teniers depicted personified by a hawker carrying a basket of liquors.

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