After David Teniers II

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.