The Smell, from the series The Five Senses

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (engravers (printmakers))
,
Hendrick Goltzius (after)
,
Cornelius Schonaeus (author)

Date

ca. 1575 - 1607

Periods

16th century, 17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The female personification of Smell allows the man accompanying her to smell a flower. Near her lap is the head of a dog.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan Saenredam VIAF RKD Wikidata, Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata, Cornelius Schonaeus
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 160 x 119 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-NC
Description
Subjects allegory (artistic device) AAT, figures (representations)
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, smell, smelling (one of the five senses) Iconclass, flowers Iconclass, dog Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-NC
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11733/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-NC
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