Trompe l'oeil with Palettes and Miniature
Artist: Jean François de Le Motte (French, 1635–1685)
Original Dimensions: 46 7/8" x 36 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (not listed) "Playfully alluding to the artist’s own role as an illusionist is a recurrent theme of trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) paintings. On two palettes Le Motte has represented blotches of paint with paint, while he also uses the medium to represent a scene of two men huddling together, once as a painting within his painting, and again as an etching with mock signature lines. Trompe l’oeil subjects enjoyed popularity throughout eighteenth- and ninteenth-century Europe. Attributions for this painting have varied, but its similarity to signed and dated paintings in Dijon and Strasbourg suggest Le Motte’s authorship." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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