Sense of Taste
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 one of the series of five senses. Figures of a man and woman seated at right, a winged putto offers them a branch of cherries. Above the branch, a banner inscribed "GUSTUS." Below, two monkeys eat fruit. A large beetle and butterfly at left; the edges of a flower arrangement visible at left margin. Very incomplete lines from poems of Scarron in French and Latin at bottom.
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: 1938-46-2
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: 44.6 × 39.3 cm (17 9/16 × 15 1/2 in.)