Caption

Fan, 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. The right side of the cover is painted in gouache with a pastoral scene in a park landscape, rendered in whitened colors with dominant blues sky/background and pinks architectural elements and figures' clothing. The left side of the cover shows a landscape with mountains in the background. The scenes are framed by a delicate gold-painted Rococo ornament. Pastoral scenes, landscapes, plant ornaments; fashion accessory. 2nd half of the 19th century; possibly 18th century; France/Europe. Height 27 cm. Provenance unknown., A decorative hand fan with a painted landscape on its leaf, showing a horizon with a pale blue sky fading to a light creamy tone above a muted green and brown foreground, featuring a few trees and shrubs with green and reddish foliage and small clusters of flowers, framed by a decorative border with pink and blue floral motifs; the fan's sticks are a light ivory color with delicate cutout patterns and a small metal rivet at the pivot, and one end of the guard has gold and blue ornamental detailing.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A14_210

License type

Rights managed

Available size

23.3Mb (1.2Mb) / 12.7in x 7.1in / 3812 x 2140 (300dpi)

Keywords

Fan 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 rendered whitened colors dominant blues sky background pinks architectural elements figures clothing left side landscape mountains scenes framed delicate gold-painted Rococo ornament Pastoral scenes landscapes plant ornaments fashion accessory 2nd half 19th century 18th century France Europe Height 27 cm Provenance unknown decorative hand fan painted landscape leaf showing horizon pale blue sky fading light creamy tone muted green brown foreground featuring trees shrubs green reddish foliage small clusters flowers decorative border pink blue floral motifs fan's sticks light ivory color delicate cutout patterns small metal rivet pivot guard blue ornamental detailing.