Caption

Fan, painted from carved ivory. Feathers decorated with gold and silver metal foil and sequins. Cover feathers with openwork decoration featuring a motif of ovals, shells, and floral sprigs. Right side of the cover painted in gouache with a pastoral scene in a park landscape in whitened colors; dominant colors blue sky/background and pink architectural elements and figures' clothing. Left side of the cover shows a landscape with mountains in the background. Scenes framed by a delicate gold-painted Rococo ornament. 2nd half of the 19th century; possibly 18th century; France, Europe. Pastoral scenes, landscapes, plant ornaments; fashion accessory fan. Height 27 cm., A hand fan with a painted leaf showing a pastoral scene in soft colors including pink, blue, green, brown, gold, and cream, featuring a group of people in period dress seated and standing among rocks and foliage, a seated figure in a pink dress at one side, a figure in blue and yellow clothing near a small animal, and a few other figures clustered near a central rocky outcrop, bordered with gold decorative motifs and pink panels at the lower corners, mounted on cream-colored slats with gold painted ornamentation.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A14_209

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Rights managed

Available size

23.5Mb (1.5Mb) / 12.8in x 7.1in / 3847 x 2134 (300dpi)

Keywords

Fan painted carved ivory Feathers decorated gold silver metal foil sequins Cover feathers openwork decoration featuring motif ovals shells floral sprigs Right side cover painted gouache pastoral scene park landscape whitened colors dominant colors blue sky background pink architectural elements figures clothing Left side cover landscape mountains Scenes framed delicate gold-painted Rococo ornament 2nd half 19th century 18th century France Europe Pastoral scenes landscapes plant ornaments fashion accessory fan Height 27 cm hand fan painted leaf showing soft colors pink green brown cream featuring group people period dress seated standing rocks foliage seated figure pink dress side figure yellow near small animal clustered central rocky outcrop bordered gold decorative motifs pink panels lower corners mounted cream-colored slats ornamentation.