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- Title:
- The Sense of Taste
- Date:
- 1744 to 1747
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm), Frame: 59 1/2 × 68 × 2 3/4 inches (151.1 × 172.7 × 7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.3.18
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1974.3.18FR
- Subject Terms:
- arcades | arches | conversation piece | costume | courtship | dinner | drinking | drinking glasses | enslaved child | figs | food | fruit | genre subject | ice cream | interior | Italianate | landscape | leisure | loggia | lovers | meal | men | napkin | peaches | pouring | Rococco style | senses | servant | silverware | table | tablecloth | taste (senses) | wine | women
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:179
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David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art : From the " Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, , vol. 3, part 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, pp. 140,141, fig. 132, N8217.B535 I42 2010+ (YCBA) Citations are to Vol. 3, Part 3 [YCBA]
Christie's Advertisement of Sale on Friday, June 21, 1974, Apollo, v. 99, no. 148, June 1974, p. 39, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's Sale Catalogue : Important English Pictures : 21 June 1974, Christie's, June 21, 1974, p. 47, No. 125, pl. 125, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's (UK), Christie's sale catalogue : Important English Drawings and Watercolours . 24 March 1987, Christie's, 1987, X348 C46 I. 1987/Mar. 24 (LSF - MUDD)
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 158-159, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, pp. 5, 62, no. 267, pl. 6d, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Liot, Les arts de l'effervescence : champagne, exposition, Reims, Muse´e des beaux-arts, 14 de´cembre 2012-26 mai 2013 organise´e par le Muse´e d'Orsay , Somogy, Paris, 2012, pp. 40, 42-43, 68, 94, 210, Cat. no. 18, N8262 .A77 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Temi Odumosu, The crying child : on colonial archives, digitization, and ethics of care in the cultural commons, Current anthropology, 61, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., p. S294, fig. 5, Available Online [ORBIS]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Raines, Philip Mercier, 1689-1760, an exhibition of paintings and engravings. , Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, 1969, p. 47, no. 52, NJ18 M5427 R35 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sense of Taste, Apollo, June 1974, p. 39, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : British Paintings 1500-1850 : 13 July 1988, Sotheby's, London, July 13, 1988, p. 129, 132-33, lot 88, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Jennifer Ullman, Philippe Mercier and The five senses, Yale Center for British Art. , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, V 0099 (YCBA) [YCBA]