At the bend in an alley, ten people gather in front of a table. In front of them, an eleventh person, a magician playing with his cups, invites them to follow with their eyes the ball that will disappear in a few moments...
This scene is from The Escamotor, a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch and believed to have been produced between 1475 and 1505.
But it's not just a fictional magic scene - it's a magic trick in itself! If we told you that there weren't actually 11 (human) characters, but rather 12... can you find out where this mysterious character is?
What if we told you to turn your screen a quarter turn counter-clockwise... and look at the table? The table itself becomes a character, seemingly looking out of the corner of its eye at the onlookers... as if averting its gaze from the robbery in progress, with the character on the left stealing the purse from the one in front! What's certain is that, almost half a millennium after its creation, this work has never ceased to amaze us!