About ‘The Sense of Smell, Philippe Mercier’
The Sense of Smell, Philippe Mercier (1747)
Like in The Sense of Touch and The Sense of Taste, this piece features two pairs of lovers, one down-to-earth and the other more romantic, meeting in a park. The young man in the tricorn hat has been out hunting, and next to him is his gun dog, drawn to a brace of partridges resting on the ledge. His companion, a girl in a straw hat who may be a shepherdess or a milkmaid, greets him with a basket of ripe melons. He picks one up, holding it to his nose to check its ripeness. The other couple is dressed more elegantly. The young woman picks a sprig of fragrant jasmine from her flower basket and holds it up for her lover to enjoy.
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