The Smell, from the series The Five Senses

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Nicolaes I Visscher (publisher)
,
Frederick Bloemaert (engravers (printmakers))
,
Abraham Bloemaert (after)

Date

ca. 1632 - 1670

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Vertumnus, in the figure of an old woman, sits opposite Pomona. With her pruning knife, Pomona has cut the flowers from a bunch of carnations. One flower she holds in her hand, the others lie on the ground.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Nicolaes I Visscher , Frederick Bloemaert VIAF RKD Wikidata, Abraham Bloemaert VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 116 x 162 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-KK-4
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , allegory (artistic device) AAT
Tags female sex; woman Iconclass, sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, old woman Iconclass, the (five) senses Iconclass, smell, smelling (one of the five senses) Iconclass, flowers Iconclass, flowers: carnation Iconclass, pruning Iconclass, agricultural implements: pruning-knife Iconclass, (story of) Vertumnus Iconclass, Vertumnus and Pomona Iconclass, Vertumnus, in the guise of an old woman, wooing Pomona Iconclass, Temptation; 'Tentatione' (Ripa) Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KK-4
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11521/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-KK-4
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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