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Willem Robart

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter, 1770s

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Description

Maker

  • Willem Robart, active 1770s, Dutch

Title

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter

Year

1770s

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor, opaque watercolor, and chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink wash,
  • gouache,
  • watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 39.1 x 36 cm (15 3/8 x 14 3/16 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain

Object Number

2001.93.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 2

Loreum Ipsum
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

A few sheets of paper lie scattered on a marble tabletop. While seemingly casual, the sheets were very deliberately chosen: each stands in for a different type of printed object. Willem Robart’s portraits of these pages are so accurate that the specific editions of the publications they came from can be identified. His astonishing meticulousness in reproducing images belongs to the tradition of trompe l’oeil (trick the eye). A competition between media underlies this genre, for by approaching the qualities of print so faithfully, the artist reasserts his belief in the versatility of drawing.

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