Allegory of the Five Senses

ca. 1630

173 cm 125.1 cm

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At first glace, this is simply a scene in a darkened inn frequented by the poor and down-and-out. Embedding a classical allegory (a symbolic image) in such a subject makes it especially intriguing. Each person acts out one of the five senses: sound is represented by the woman...

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Philippe, duke of Orléans [d. 1723]; Louis Philippe Joseph, duke of Orléans, Philippe Egalité [d. 1793], by inheritance; Orléans Sale, Coxe, Burrell and Foster, London, February 14, 1800; Dr. Frank Lewarne, Cricklade, Wiltshire; Cricklade Town Hall, Wiltshire, October 1945, by gift; Private collection, London; Sale, Sotheby's, London, December 8, 1993; Mattiesen Fine Art Ltd., London; Walters Art Museum, 2003, by purchase.
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