Can You Trust Your Eyes?

This painting seems like an ordinary oil or gouache painting. Upon taking a closer look, you start to realize it is no ordinary canvas painting. It was painted on the back of a glass plate! Imagine what else you might have missed? This reverse glass painting is one of the thirty-nine reverse glass paintings found in Dutch collections. It was once a widely sought-after collector’s item in Europe and the United States. Now most of them are collecting dust in museum depots.