‘trompe l’oiel’ = ‘tricks the eye’
One would think that these paintings are photos!
Pere Borrell del Caso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Evert Collier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
(featured image: Samuel van Hoogstraten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)