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Object Type
Museum number: 1927,1008.131
Title: Object: L'Odorat; Series: Les Cinq sens (The Five Senses)
Description: Smell: a noble man smelling a bouquet holding the hand of a woman with a fan, a woman smelling a bouquet and two dogs about to go down the stairs to a formal garden; cartouche with flowers and surmounted by the face of a creature made of two profiles, and ornate frame. 1635 (?) Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Abraham Bosse; Published by: Melchior Tavernier
School/style
Production date: 1635 (?)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 259 millimetres; Width: 327 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1868-6-12-64 for comment.
Bibliographic references: Blum 1924 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse (1030); Duplessis 1859 / Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Abraham Bosse (1073); Lothe 2008 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse graveur parisien du XVIIe siècle (318)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; formal garden; french costume 17thc; five senses
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1927
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1927,1008.131

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