Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints for the Fleischman Baths at

for the Fleischman Baths at 42nd St

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

The base with four panels also decorated with domestic scenes

The painting is housed in the original gilded gesso frame

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints for the Fleischman Baths atA 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