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William Michael Harnett, The Old Violin, 1886, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mellon
Scaife in honor of Paul Mellon 1993.15.1 |
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William
Harnett:
Trompe L'Oeil Master
With European
precedents in mind, William Harnett transformed still-life painting
in America when he tipped the picture plane on end, hanging objects on
a rough-hewn door rather than placing them on the customary
table top. Harnett's pictorial innovations—the vertical orientation,
his choice of tactile
objects, and his painstaking trompe l'oeil techniques—made him
the most famous still-life painter in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century.
 
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