Monkey on Branch
1855
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1855
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Monkey on Branch is a 1855 by Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil, a Impressionism work, depicting monkey, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A small monkey clings to a bare branch against a plain background. The photo looks flat at first, but if you hold it up to a stereoscope—a viewer with two lenses—it pops into 3D. This isn’t a painting or drawing. It’s an early 3D photograph, made by layering two nearly identical images. The slight differences between them trick your brain into seeing depth. Duboscq-Soleil was one of the first to sell these viewers and images in Paris. To see more of his 3D experiments, look up Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (French, 1817–1886).
