# Flower Still-Life with Curtain

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SPELT, Adrian van der](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spelt-adrian-van-der-r21fbd87878953c>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on wood, 46,5 x 63,9 cm

## Commentary

Optical illusionistic effects were intended by a number of 17th-century Dutch still-life painters with their &#34;paintings of paintings&#34;, where a curtain, draped aside, seems to be hanging in front of a painting. This genre of still-life was known as a &#34;bedriegertje&#34; \(little trickster\). &lt;P&gt; &lt;TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR=&#34;\#99CCCC&#34;&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG SRC=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 7 minutes\):&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/19\_cent/tchaikovsky\_nutcracker\_waltz.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, ballet suite, op. 71, Waltz of the Flowers&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;

## Attribution

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