Consists of two images on one sheet: a grotesque panel with a medallion as centerpiece, carried by two figures, surmounted by female mask; the grotesque design composed predominantly of wreath and floral scroll motifs.

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Object Timeline

1946	We acquired this object.
1991	We exhibited this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2020	You found it!

Object ID #18603261

This is a Print. It is dated 1647 and we acquired it in 1946. Its medium is etching with engraving support: white laid paper (l946-12-4-1 is on same sheet). It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Horizontal oval within horizontal rectangle. In a grotesque field, the medallion depicts a seated woman smelling roses in a landscape.

Print, Sense of Smell, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
blackwork engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-1-a

Horizontal oval within horizontal rectangle. In an animal-grotesque field the medallion depcits a seated women eats a fruit in a garden.

Print, Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
blackwork engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-1-b

Horizontal oval within horizontal rectangle. In an animal-grotesque field the medallion depicts a seat woman playing a lute in a landscape.

Print, Sense of Sound, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
blackwork, engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-2-a

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Print, Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Print, Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
1945-6-3-1

Vertical oval in rectangle showing a grotesque designs on a black ground. At center, under a baldacchino, is standing the divinity Athena surrounded by scrolls, fantastic creatures, vases, and fruits.

Print, Athena, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-3-3

Print, Sense of Sight, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)

Print, Sense of Sight, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
blackwork and engraving on laid paper.
1945-6-2-b

Its dimensions are

24.6 x 29.6 cm (9 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.) Platemark/repeat: 24.6 x 10.4 cm (9 11/16 x 4 1/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in plate, at lower left margin: "S. Vouet inv."; at lower right margin: "M. Dorigny Sc."; at lower center: "6."

Cite this object as

Object ID #18603261; France; etching with engraving support: white laid paper (l946-12-4-1 is on same sheet); 24.6 x 29.6 cm (9 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.) Platemark/repeat: 24.6 x 10.4 cm (9 11/16 x 4 1/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); 1946-12-4-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dm6T/
Accession Number 1946-12-4-2
Object ID 18603261