File:Backer, Jacob Adriaensz Circle of - Portrait of a Man smoking a pipe (The sense of smell).jpg

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Portrait of a Man smoking a pipe (The sense of smell)  wikidata:Q125144748 reasonator:Q125144748
Artist
Circle of Jacob Adriaensz Backer  (1608–1651)  wikidata:Q19032
 
Circle of Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Alternative names
Jakob Adriaensz. Backer, Jacobo Adriaensz. Bacquer, Jacob Adriaensz. Bakker, Monogrammist JAB
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death between 27 August 1608 and 31 December 1608
date QS:P,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1608-08-27T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1608-12-31T00:00:00Z/11
27 August 1651 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Harlingen Amsterdam
Work location
Leeuwarden (1627–1632), Amsterdam (1633–1651), Vlissingen (1638)
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creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1776,Q19032
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Title
Portrait of a Man smoking a pipe (The sense of smell)
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Man smoking a pipe (The sense of smell)"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Pfeife rauchenden Mannes (Geruchssinn)"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
a period copy after a now lost original by Jacob Adriaensz Backer that once formed part of a series of five works, each illustrating one of the senses. The original series included Backer’s Old Man Holding a Mirror Fragment (Allegory of Sight)1 and his Drinker (Allegory of Taste),2 both of which are today in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, as well as probably his Violin Player (Allegory of Hearing) in the Szépmüveszéti Múzeum, Budapest.3 His Allegory of Touch has not been located, and his Allegory of Smell is known only through the present copy. This series by Backer seems to have proven successful. In addition to the present painting, copies are known of the Allegory of Taste and the Allegory of Hearing,4 suggesting that there were likely several complete series of senses made after Backer’s original set made by members of his workshop, circle, later imitators. Throughout the twentieth century, this portrait was published by art historians such as Bauch and Sumowski as an original work by Jacob Adriaensz Backer, and at times it was supposed that the model for the young man smoking was Adriaen Brouwer.
Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 72 cm (28.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 60.5 cm (23.8 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+72U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+60.5U174728
Object history
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Source/Photographer https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/master-paintings/circle-of-jacob-adriaensz-backer-portrait-of-a-man

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