Glass Coulisses

François Binétruy Collection, Versailles, #FB-PAN-33

Dutch ca.1780

Dimensions: H= cm, W= cm, D= cm

Lens: ⌀= cm, ƒ= cm

 

Figure FB-PAN-33.1 –Glass Coulisses
© Binétruy Collection.

This is a framed scene made up of coulisses painted on glass. It is probably meant to be viewed with a concave mirror, and if so, would be what the Dutch call a perspectiefkast. Perspectiefkasts are "optical machines " and is included in the Optical Machine Taxonomy.