Georg Pencz

Olfatus (Smell, from the Five Senses)

Engraving, c. 1544

Interior with a seated whole-length nude female figure; smelling flowers; various bottles on the ground; at right a bird

Fine impression on laid paper, trimmed within the plate mark

Bartsch 108; Landau 106; Hollstein 103-107

Sheet: 7.8 x 5.4 cm

ex-Louis Valentin collection, his stamp on the back (Lugt 2498)

Minor loss in the lower right corner; remnants of an old mount on the back