Trompe l'Oeil Still Life

c. 1754 Sheet: 37.3 x 27.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.) Source image
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Understood in the 1700s as a delightful, intellectual game, trompe l’oeil paintings and drawings such as this one were devised to “trick the eye” as the French term suggests. Toeing the line between realism and deception, the details of these compositions expose them as elabor...

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