Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints The base with four panels

The base with four panels also decorated with domestic scenes

The painting signed to the top left corner

The chair having a carved crest with a shell motif to the center flanked by a pair of finials

condition is excellent throughout

Four years later

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Drawings & Prints The base with four panelsA fine pair of antique Italian oil on panel paintings Nature Morte of two pairs of gamebirds, in the Trompe l'oeil style, by Michelangelo Meucci (1840 1909), signed & dated Firenze 1873. Trompe l'oeil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three dimensional space and objects on a two dimensional surface. Trompe l'il, which is most often associated with painting and it tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or