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A
still life
painting by
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
that depicts the backside of a painting used as a letter-rack through the artistic technique
trompe-l'œil
. This technique, which is translatable as
deceive the eye
, uses realistic imagery to create the
optical illusion
that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
Painting:
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
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