Public domain
Folding fan painted with a landscape on a pierced ivory mount
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The parchment leaf shows a scene painted in gouache where centrally a man in a blue costume offers a basket of flowers to a lady in a green-yellow japon. On the left sits a lady playing a musical instrument.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVouwwaaier beschilderd met een landschap op ajour gesneden montuur van ivoor. c. 1750 - c. 1775. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
Similar works
Folding fan with leaf of thin leather, on which a pastoral scene is painted in watercolour, on a mount of mother-of-pearl pierced and carved in relief with 'métal en quatre couleurs'
Folding Fan with a Paper Leaf Depicting a Pastoral Scene with Two Figures, a Dog, and Sheep on the Front and a Shepherdess on the Back, on an Ivory Mount with Openwork and Relief Carving, with Corresponding Fan Case
Folding Fan with a Paper Leaf Depicting the Judgment of Paris in Gouache, Surrounded by a Decorative Border, on a Mother-of-Pearl Mount with Openwork and Relief Carving, Decorated with 'Metal en Quatre Couleurs'
Folding fan with double leaf of paper, on which a round, cut-out stipple engraving depicting a seated woman surrounded by lovers, with a chinoiserie figurine wearing silk clothes on either side, on an openwork carved mount of bone
Folding fan with a leather leaf, front with nine medallions in grisaille or sepia tones, reverse side a seated woman in a landscape on a mount of pierced and relief-carved ivory with 'métal en quatre couleurs'
Folding fan with a paper leaf, featuring three cartouches of gold paint on the front with pastoral scenes (fishermen, shepherdess, peasant woman) in watercolour, and the reverse side a fisherman under a tree, on a mount of pierced and relief-carved ivory with 'métal en quatre couleurs'