Live Auction 3028Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)
Lot 136

Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)

An Allegory of the Five Senses; An elegant company making merry in a garden

Closed7 May 2013

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Circle of David Vinckboons I (Mechelen 1576-1629 Antwerp)
An Allegory of the Five Senses; An elegant company making merry in a garden
oil on panel
52 x 82.5 cm.

with St. Anna-Galerie, Zürich, by 1955, as E. van de Velde.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1995, lot 283, as Studio of David Vinckboons (£16,100).

Specialist note

In this Allegory the sense of Sight is personified by a gentleman with a spyglass and a lady with a mirror standing by a statue of an aiming archer; Hearing by a music-making couple and a deer; Touch by a fumbling couple with a bird on the back of a chair; Smell by a lady, with a dog on her arm, being offered a rose by a gentleman; and Taste by a wine drinking youth with a monkey on the ground.
The painting has been attributed in the past to the Dutch poet and playwrighter Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero, as it apparently was monogrammed 'GB' (lower centre).
The composition is also known from a drawing by David Vinckboons in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.