Caption:
The Sense of Taste, François-Thomas Mondon, French, ca. 1709 1755, Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted, At left a man on a ladder gathers grapes which he hands to a woman carrying grapes in her apron. Seated at right are a man and a woman to whom he offers grapes and fruit. Under an arch of trellis-work on which grape vines grow. An apple (?) tree in the background. Bottom: a leopard (?) sits on rocaille and shell motifs over: 'LE GOUST. / à Paris chés Charpentier, rue St. Jacques au Coq. Avec privilège du Roy'. Bottom left: 'Mondon invenit'., France, ca. 1740, Print, Print