Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern He did not return to

He did not return to the Salon until after 1945 with scenes of battles from the Empire through his work for the Army Museum

This walnut ink drawing can be clearly seen in some of the thinly painted areas of his work

the urns having circular socle bases and raised on square ormolu plinths

the vases are raised on the original mahogany stands and marked to the base with a twin red character mark

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern He did not return toA 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