The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 29, July 18, 2004, Article 27

CURRENCY PAINTINGS

  [My apologies for not publishing the following item last week.
  It may have gotten tangled in the web of spam and deleted
  accidentally. -Editor]

  Fred Reed, Publisher-Editor  of PAPER MONEY writes:
  "Regarding the item on Victor Dubreuil and "Barrels of Money",
  trompe l'oeil currency paintings have been a favorite of mine
  for nearly 30 years now.  I have two excellent examples
  hanging in my office now.

  Dubreuil painted  ***at least***  eight different "Barrels of
  Money" paintings (and I suspect that number could actually
  be many dozens of them) all of which will be illustrated in a
  future issue of PAPER MONEY devoted to Paper Money
  Art.

  The artist's "barrels" paintings are in a variety of sizes, but
  differ most explicitly in the numbers of barrels and types and
  configurations of the large size U.S. paper money they depict.
  Especially prominently featured in several of them are

  Martha Washington $1 Silver Certificates (F215-221),
  William Windom $2 Silver Certificates (F 245-246),
  U.S. Grant $5 Silver Certificates (F 259-265),
  Edwin Stanton $1 Treasury/Coin Notes (F347-349), and
  $50 Second Charter Brown Backs.(F 507-518a).

  Dubreuil also did less "hectic" tromp l'oeil currency paintings
  featuring French notes, $5 Woodchopper Legal Tender Notes
  (F 64-92), $10 Second Charter Brown Backs (F479-492),
  and $10 Hendricks Tombstone Silver Certificates
  (F 291-297)."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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