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The whereabouts of Allegory of Smell by Utrecht painter Jan van Bijlert (1597-1671) were unknown until it appeared on the art market in 2016. In 1631, the civic guard in Delft organized a lottery to raise money for its financial wellbeing. The first prize for a shooting competition was a series of paintings of the five senses made by the Utrecht artists Gerard van Honthorst, Abraham Bloemaert, Paulus Moreelse, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Jan van Bijlert. The only other known example from this series is Terbrugghen’s Allegory of Taste, now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Both paintings …