A silhouette is a view of a certain object or scene consisting of the scheme and an interior featureless, with the silhouette usually being black. Form which presents to the eye the mass of an object that is darker than the background on which are projected. Perfil.La Word is an eponym named after Etienne de Silhouette, Minister of the Hacienda of Luis XV of France who in 1759 imposed harsh economic demands before the French people, particularly to the rich, during of the seven years war, such that his name became sinonimode anything completed or made cheaply. It is said that you enjoyed of Silhouette paper cut portraits in silhouette, practice to become popular it took the name from the name of the Minister making it synonymous with these portraits. Before the advent of photography, getting trimmed in black cardboard silhouette profiles was the cheapest way to record the appearance of a person.The surname Silhouette is a French form of the Basque surname Zuloeta; Arnaud de Silhouette, Etienne parent, was originally from Biarritz, the French Basque country city.