Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph by L.-L. Boilly, 1823.

  • Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
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[1823]
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44032i
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Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph after L.-L. Boilly.

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Top, a man who looks at a miniature through a quizzing glass, representing sight. Below left, a man holding a watch up to his ear, representing hearing. Right, a woman holding a perfume flask to her nose, representing smell. Centre, a man licking a finger which has just wiped some food from a dish, representing taste. Bottom, an old physician who represents touch taking the pulse by feeling the wrist and forearm of the young woman who smells the perfume flask

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[Paris] : I[mp]. lith de Delpech, [1823]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 21 x 18 cm

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Les cinq sens. L. Boilly

References note

Henry Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly, Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1898, p. 205, no. 1283 ("Non daté, mais publié le 19 avril l823. Ne porte pas de numéro. Un personnage examine à la loupe un médaillon; un autre écoute le tic tac de sa montre; un troisième se lèche les doigts; une jeune fille porte un flacon à ses narines, tandis qu'un médecin lui tâte le pouls.")
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, p. 55, no. 6, Grimaces no 21 (?) ("No. 21 (?) Les cinq sens, 1823 H[arrisse]. 1283, sans no.; — id. coloriée; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 86 (rogné).")
W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (edd.), Medicine and the five senses, Cambridge 1993, front cover (reproduced)
Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019, vol. II, pp. 878-879, no. 2048E

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Wellcome Collection 44032i

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