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Public domain: Image Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.
Trompe l'Oeil Featuring Engraved Portraits of Dutch and Flemish Painters
Public domain: Image Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

Trompe l'Oeil Featuring Engraved Portraits of Dutch and Flemish Painters

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Dateafter 1764
Mediumpen, brown ink and grey wash, on two joined sheets of paper
Dimensionssheet: 63.2 × 56.5 cm (24 7/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineTheodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Fund
Object number2022.41
DescriptionThe outlines of the composition silhouetted and the whole laid down onto a backing sheet. Each portrait numbered in brown ink. Depicts 173 artists.
ProvenanceJacques and Galila Hollander, Ohain, Belgium Thence by descent until 2013 The Hollander sale ('Le cabinet de curiosites de Jacques et Galila Hollander'), Paris, Christie's, 16 October 2013, lot 433 (as French School, 18th century) Haboldt & Co., Paris and New York; Acquired from them in 2014 by a Private Collection, Providence, Rhode Island.
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