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Napoleon III's Apartments, Louvre, Paris, France

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The Sense of Hearing

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish,1577-1640)

Artist: Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568-1625)

Date: 1617-1618

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

The Five Senses is a set of allegorical paintings created at Antwerp in 1617-1618 by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, with Brueghel being responsible for the settings and Rubens for the figures.

Rubens painted the allegorical female figures, accompanied by a putto or a winged Cupid in Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Touch, and by a satyr in Taste. Brueghel created the sumptuous settings, which evoke the splendour of the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands, to which the two artists were attached. (The eroticism of the figures' near-nudity has been related to ecstasy in luxury.