Louis Leopold Boilly Lithograph - Hand Colored Caricature - The five Senses - Man Cave Decor - Bar Wall Art-1850
Caricature by Boilly of the five senses with a group of four men and a woman. Senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide data for perception. Humans have a multitude of senses. Sight (ophthalmoception), hearing (audioception), taste (gustaoception), smell (olfacoception or olfacception), and touch (tactioception) are the five traditionally recognized.
Top, a man who looks at a miniature through a quizzing glass, representing sight. Below left, a man holding a watch up to his ear, representing hearing. Right, a woman holding a perfume flask to her nose, representing smell. Centre, a man licking a finger which has just wiped some food from a dish, representing taste. Bottom, an old man who represents touch feeling the wrist and forearm of the young woman who smells the perfume flask
Louis-Léopold Boilly (July 5, 1761 - January 4, 1845) was a French painter and draftsman.
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Five people, each exercising one of the five senses
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