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The Five Senses and the Four Elements

1627 · Musée du Louvre, Paris

still-life

This allegorical still-life, typical for the period, consists of objects referring to the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste) and the four elements (fire, air, earth, water). The objects bear the Richelieu family arms.

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The Five Senses and the Four Elements

About the Artist

Jacques Linard

1600 – 1645

French still-life painter, who spent his career in Paris. In 1631 he was named as a 'valet de chambre' of Louis XIII. His pictures are strongly influenced by the Antwerp school of still-life painters, especially Jan Brueghel. Linard delights by his use of bright colour, his painstaking work and a curiously powerful juxtaposition of boxes and flowers. His present status is only slightly below that of Moillon, Baugin and Stoskopff.

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