Nil Sub Sole Novum (There’s Nothing New under the Sun)

N. Rinaudot, artist

Nil Sub Sole Novum (There’s Nothing New under the Sun), 1914–1918

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: colored pencil; ink

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 21.4 x 17.4 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 7/16 x 6 7/8 in
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 38.2 x 27.4 cm
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Professor Eric Gustav Carlson

Accession number: 2014.1916

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Rinaudot attempts to amuse us with a pun centered on the idea of cosmetics as a kind of camouflage and the double sense of camouflage rendered as “camoufle” (to disguise) and “l’age” (age). Remarkably, the cosmetics industry was bolstered by medicalresearch into covering wounds during WWI.