Les cinq sens

Govaerts, Abraham (1589-1626) (attributed to)

Francken, Frans, II (1581-1642)


Item type:
painting
Height:
56.0 cm  (22 1/16 in.)
Width:
86.5 cm  (34 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    [Museum inv. no.: 419]

Description

Allegory of the five senses as women around a table in a forest clearing. Hearing, on the far right, is playing a lute.

Iconclass

31AA3
the (five) senses - AA - female human figure

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2

Bibliographic references

Lallement, Nicole. "Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre. V: Peintures hollandaise et flamandes des XVII et XVIII siècles.", Musique, images, instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 6 (2004) 226, no. 65.

RIdIM record id

2600