France
19th century
Oil on board
Height 13 in. (33 cm); Width 9½ in. (24.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Savannah
This French trompe l'oeil painting depicts an arrangement of currency notes, documents, and printed ephemera rendered in oil on board with the illusionistic precision characteristic of the genre. Visible elements include a Romanian National Bank note reading "Doue Deci Lei," a French centime note, and what appears to be a prescription or letter addressed to a doctor, assembled in the overlapping flat arrangement typical of trompe l'oeil compositions of the period. The genre, with roots in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still life, enjoyed a strong revival in nineteenth-century France and America, where currency and document subjects were a favored category.
The painting is competently executed with careful attention to printed text, paper texture, and the shadows cast by overlapping sheets, the essential technical demands of the trompe l'oeil mode. Private collection provenance from Savannah connects the piece to Georgia collecting of European painting.
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France
19th century
Oil on board
Height 13 in. (33 cm); Width 9½ in. (24.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Savannah
This French trompe l'oeil painting depicts an arrangement of currency notes, documents, and printed ephemera rendered in oil on board with the illusionistic precision characteristic of the genre. Visible elements include a Romanian National Bank note reading "Doue Deci Lei," a French centime note, and what appears to be a prescription or letter addressed to a doctor, assembled in the overlapping flat arrangement typical of trompe l'oeil compositions of the period. The genre, with roots in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still life, enjoyed a strong revival in nineteenth-century France and America, where currency and document subjects were a favored category.
The painting is competently executed with careful attention to printed text, paper texture, and the shadows cast by overlapping sheets, the essential technical demands of the trompe l'oeil mode. Private collection provenance from Savannah connects the piece to Georgia collecting of European painting.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
