# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CW3wFPVvkFY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228751-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e1fac6e7eb.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-11-29T19:14:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Flip this painting over for a surprise. 

In "Hunting on the Lagoon," Vittore Carpaccio uses a method called trompe l'oeil—meaning fool the eye—to depict notes on the back of his painting that are rendered so realistically they look three dimensional. 

Were you fooled?

🏷: #trompeloeil #paintinghistory #artoninstagram #letters

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## Tags

trompeloeil, paintinghistory, letters, artoninstagram

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