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This is one of five paintings intended to hang together, each of which denotes one of the five senses – a common theme for painting in the Low Countries in the seventeenth century. In each of these paintings Gonzales Coques used a traditional activity to represent the relevant sense. Here Taste is depicted as a smiling figure who is lifting an oversized rummer of wine and seems to be gesticulating to indicate his enjoyment of the prospect of drinking it. Some bread and a plate of oysters – standard fare in the taverns of the time – sit on the table in front of him. Each sense is also a real portrait. We don’t know who this is, but as three of the other paintings in the series are artists, this man may be one too. Some have speculated that it could be a self portrait, but there’s no evidence for this.
Title
Taste
Date
after 1661
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 25.3 x W 19.4 cm
Accession number
NG1118
Acquisition method
Bought, 1882
Work type
Painting
