![]() ![]() ![]() Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii. It was (and is) often employed in murals. Although the term gained currency only in the early 19th century, the illusionistic technique associated with trompe-l'œil dates much further back. The phrase, which can also be spelled without the hyphen and ligature in English as trompe l'oeil, originates with the artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, who used it as the title of a painting he exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1800.
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