About two years ago I saw a picture in a book of the painting from which my print was made. It’s called “The Old Violin” and is by William Harnett. What can you tell me about the … ...

One of the highlights of Cincinnati’s thirteenth annual Industrial Exposition in 1886 was the trompe l’oeil painting by the American artist William Harnett called The Old Violin. Publisher Frank ...

It is grand deception — but a masterpiece nevertheless. That is William M. Harnett’s astonishing tableau of painted realism The Old Violin (1886), recently acquired by the National Gall… ...