Caption:
Sense of Taste, Brush and tempera on linen, Panel of natural colored linen plain cloth painted in polychrome tempera, showing one of the series of five senses. Figures of a man and woman seated at right, a winged putto offers them a branch of cherries. Above the branch, a banner inscribed 'GUSTUS.' Below, two monkeys eat fruit. A large beetle and butterfly at left; the edges of a flower arrangement visible at left margin. Very incomplete lines from poems of Scarron in French and Latin at bottom., France, mid- 17th century, figures, Drawing, Drawing