Louis-Léopold BOILLY
The five senses
(Les cinq sens)
(1823)
no. 21 from the Recueil des profils et grimaces (Collection of profiles and grimaces) series 1823–28

Medium
hand-coloured lithograph

Measurements
20.5 × 17.7 cm irreg. (image) 29.5 × 28.3 cm irreg. (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Anonymous gift, 1968

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
IFF 6

Printing/Publishing
printed and published by Delpech, Paris

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: L. Boilly
printed in ink l.c.:Les cinq sens
printed in ink l.r.: I. lith de Delpech

Accession Number
1808D-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire

Subjects (specific)
caricatures gesture hearing (sense) senses sight (sense) smell (sense) taste (senses) touch