Trompe l'oeil. The Reverse of a Framed Painting

The eye is certainly deceived! From a distance you truly believe that the artist has put down a painting [...] with its reverse facing outwards. As you approach it, you realize the deception. We are facing one of the few works of art in the world to have two backs. With its ability to surprise and mislead spectators this work was an obvious choice for a kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosities). [...] Back then the Kunstkammer was still housed at the Copenhagen Palace, but when the King set up a new Kunstkammer, the work became part of the so-called Perspektivkammer. [...] Gijsbrechts was court artist to the Danish king during the period 1668–1672.

Source: Eva de la Fuente Pedersen, SIGNTEXT, 1/1/2011

We present today's painting thanks to Statens Museum for Kunst.  : )))

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