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Jean-Étienne Liotard, Trompe-l’œil au portrait de Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche Vers, 1762-1763; Huile sur panneau 36,2 x 43,4 cm, Paris, Sylvie Lhermite-King.

A trompe-l'œil portrait by Jean Étienne Liotard showing Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The painting is designed to look like a sliding wooden cover that partially conceals her portrait, with a small white medallion hanging above her.

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