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A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior. The term comes from Étienne De Silhouette , Louis XV 's miserly finance minister.

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A silhouette is a form of Art work. It is most commonly a human Portrait in profile, in black. Most silhouettes are formed by tracing the Shadow of the subject and cutting along the resultant outline.

Silhouette portraits were fashionable around the year 1800. Subsequently they have been used for book illustration, for example by Arthur Rackham .


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