Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints Four years later

Four years later

The interior of the box also having inlaid satinwood stringing and three fitted compartments each with an etched crystal container

the chest is raised on compressed turned bun feet

The painting signed to the top left corner

The chair having a carved crest with a shell motif to the center flanked by a pair of finials

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints Four years laterA fine pair of antique Italian oil on panel paintings Nature Morte of two pairs of gamebirds, in the Trompe l'oeil style, by Michelangelo Meucci (1840 1909), signed & dated Firenze 1873. Trompe l'oeil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three dimensional space and objects on a two dimensional surface. Trompe l'il, which is most often associated with painting and it tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or