# Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/board-partition-with-letter-rack-and-music-book-r0c909b468cd0f5>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [GIJSBRECHTS, Cornelis Norbertus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 124 x 107 cm

## Commentary

This work is, as a large portion of Gijsbrecht&#39;s oeuvre, painted as a trompe-l&#39;oeil, an illusion, made to trick the spectator into believing that the objects are real and three-dimensional rather than flat and two-dimensional.

## Related artworks

- [A Cabinet in the Artist&#39;s Studio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/a-cabinet-in-the-artists-studio-rb93297a767982f>)
- [Quodlibet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/quodlibet-r7479c62a287c00>)
- [Reverse side of a painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/reverse-side-of-a-painting-r5581622604effa>)
- [Still-Life with Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/still-life-with-self-portrait-r4fe063e107120a>)
- [Trompe l&#39;oeil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/trompe-loeil-r6fd7635e2c22dc>)
- [Trompe-l&#39;oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/trompe-loeil-with-studio-wall-and-vanitas-still-life-rde156ee098f451>)
- [Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/vanitas-still-life-r75ff296a9167c3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)