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1992-09-02
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A silhouette is a profile or shadow portrait
filled in with black or a dark colour. A
common pictorial technique in Europe in the
late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was
named after Etienne de Silhouette
(1709-1767), a French finance minister who
made paper cut-outs as a hobby.
Subject by: Simon Wiseman