Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 352

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(FIVE SENSES.) Robert Cooper; after Jean Baptiste Pillement. Les Cinq Sens de Nature. Etched and engraved title and 5 captioned plates on laid paper. Approximately 9 1/2x6 3/4 inches each sheet size, wide margins with mostly untrimmed deckle edges; original stitching holes at left, one small corner repair. Paris, 1760s-1770s

Additional Details

Scarce suite of diminutive characterizations of each of the five basic bodily senses within a decorative Rococo framework.

- La Vue (sight).
- L'Ouie (hearing).
- L'Odorat (smell).
- Le Gout (taste).
- Le Touche (touch).