Sense of Taste

Panel of natural colored linen plain cloth painted in polychrome tempera, showing one of the series of five senses. Figures of a man and woman seated at right, a winged putto offers them a branch of cherries. Above the branch, a banner inscribed "GUSTUS." Below, two monkeys eat fruit. A large beetle and butterfly at left; the edges of a flower arrangement visible at left margin. Very incomplete lines from poems of Scarron in French and Latin at bottom.