Live Auction 16722The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part II
After David Teniers II
Lot 854

After David Teniers II

The Senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell and Touch

Closed10 May 2018

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USD 6,875

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After David Teniers II
The Senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell and Touch
oil on copper
7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (18.1 x 14.2 cm.)
(4)a set of four

with Needham's Antiques, New York, where acquired in 1950 by Peggy and David Rockefeller, Hudson Pines, Westchester, New York.

Specialist note

These copper panels represent four of the five senses and are executed after engravings made in 1736 by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-1783) of a series of paintings by Teniers in the collection of Jeanne Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736). Missing from the present set is the sense of taste, which Teniers depicted personified by a hawker carrying a basket of liquors.