Allegory of Taste

early 17th century

Dominicus Custos

Associated Names
Dominicus Custos

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 or after - 1612

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist After, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist After, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Family of Yde and Marjon van der Meulen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate): 17.3 × 12.3 cm (6 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2026.43.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein 103 (B) [Jan Saenredam]

  • Series Title

    The Five Senses

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz Degenhard [died c. 1917], Munich (Lugt 658a). purchased by Marjon van der Meulen, 1978; gift to NGA, 2026.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1980: vol. XXIII (Saenredam): no. 103 (B).

Inscriptions

in plate, in margin below image: Dulcia sepe nocent cuido gustata palato, / Votaq[ue] damnose luxuriosa gule.; in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: 4.; in plate, in margin below image at bottom right: DC.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: R1949

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