Oxymoron| Etienne Moulineuf, 1744
Proposal: A large, plush red velvet cushion is placed between the wall and Etienne Moulineuf’s painting (1706–1789): Trompe-l’œil with Broken Glass after Le Bénédicité by Jean Simeon Chardin (1699–1779).
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Chardin’s Le Bénédicité captures the delicate serenity of an ordinary home—a quiet moment in the daily life of a peaceful, contented family. Moulineuf reinterprets it as a trompe-l’œil, based on a stark black-and-white engraving, glimpsed through shattered glass—as if fracturing the harmony that once radiated from the scene.
Art allows for everything—even expressing the opposite of what is meant.
Trompe-l’œil with Broken Glass after Le Bénédicité by Jean Simeon Chardin
Oil on canvas 49,5 × 38,5 cm cm
Musée du monastère royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
