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 John Haberle, Imitation, 1887, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century Fund, Gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation 1998.96.1 |
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Imitation was John Haberle's first painting of money. Like Harnett, Haberle had worked as an engraver, learning the precision techniques he would need to render the microscopic details of currency. (John F. Peto trained as a painter rather than as an engraver; his money pictures were far less realistic.) When Haberle exhibited Imitation at the National Academy of Design in 1887, Harnett admired it and said that he had "never seen such reproduction anywhere." More so than Harnett, Haberle wanted the forms in his paintings to be read not as close imitations, but as the objects themselves. (For example, type was legible in a work by Haberle but not in one by Harnett.) Click on the highlighted areas of Imitation to see Haberle's trompe l'oeil technique up close. |
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