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A trompe-l'oeil arrangement of flowers rendered to appear three-dimensional against a plain ground.

A Trompe l'Oeil with Flowers

1883 · Oil on canvas · Royal Collection (RCIN 403727)

A second still life (1883) in the British Royal Collection (RCIN 403727), painted as a trompe-l’oeil — an illusion designed to fool the eye into reading the flowers as real, projecting from the surface. Together with Vases and Flowers, it shows the technical command of her early “historical still life” period.


Image: Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons