Art, literature & history
Trompe l'oeil
1846
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor with pen and ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 50.8 x 72 cm (20 x 28 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.7.40
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giuseppe Voltolini. Trompe l'oeil. Giuseppe Voltolini; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giuseppe_Voltolini,_Trompe_l%27oeil,_1846,_NGA_110675.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Trompe l'oeil — Giuseppe Voltolini. 1846.
Medium: watercolor with pen and ink on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 50.8 x 72 cm (20 x 28 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.7.40. Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.