Trompe l'Oeil by Christian Winterschmidt

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Trompe l'Oeil
Trompe l'Oeil ( Netherlands c. 1775 )
CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB WINTERSCHMIDT (1755-1809)

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

20.70cm wide 26.20cm high (8.15 inches wide  10.31 inches high)

Description / Expertise

Etching and engraving printed in red and black, and gouache partly over etched outlines.
One of four.
In this image the stag beetle poet and the grasshoppers on stilts are taken from Johann Rudolph Schellenberg’s series Pour Raillerie.