Caricatural Anamorphosis

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Description

France

19th century

Print on cardboard painted in tempera

6.7 x 8.1 in170 x 205 mm

“In painting, anamorphosis is the monstrous projection or disfigured representation of an image made on a plane which, nonetheless, from one point of view appears regular and made with correct proportions” (Diderot and D’Alembert).

COD: 02-03-002