Trompe l'oeil (Drummer boy)

Battersby, Martin (1914 or 1920-1982)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1950-1960

Height:

179.5 cm  (70 11/16 in.)

Width:

94.5 cm  (37 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas laid on panel

Description

Trompe l'oeil of side drum with a poster behind. This is one of a set of seven trompe l'oeil (deceive the eye) paintings that were painted for the architect Denis Martineau (1907–1975), the previous owner and donor of Mompesson House. The other themes are Music, Agriculture, Architecture and Art and these are displayed flanked by two paintings of urns in niches.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cylindrical drum [2532]

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Also part of the same collection of panels is a tromp l'oeil - 'Music' (RIdIM item 1631)

RIdIM record id

1632

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