Senses of Smell and Hearing
date: label: Date
content: mid- 17th century
name: label: Author
content: Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Panel of natural colored linen plain cloth painted in polychrome tempera showing two scenes from a series depicting the five senses. At left, figures of a seated man and woman are offered a flower to smell by a putto. At right, a woman playing an organ or dulcimer and a man playing a lute, a figure of a putto singing and reading from a songbook. Inscription above the scene reads "AUDITUS." A vase of flowers separates the two scenes. At bottom, lines from some of Paul Scarron's poems in French and Latin.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-46-1
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and tempera on linen
label: Dimensions
content: 40 × 81.4 cm (15 3/4 × 32 1/16 in.)