Cabriolet fan

Unknown

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Date of creation:

ca. 1755

Height:

25.5 cm  (10 1/16 in.)

maximum open: 48.5 cm (19 1/8); arc: 180°

Technique / Medium:

paper leaf painted in gouache; pierced, painted, and partially varnished ivory sticks

Description

The scene along the upper leaf of the obverse side of this fan includes a young girl dancing with a tambourine, a seated youth playing a transverse flute, a seated adult woman, and two children dancing. Description from museum website:
Two double paper leaves mounted concentrically. Eighteen thin, pierced, gilded and painted ivory sticks. Obverse: upper leaf shows figures engaged in country pleasures of dancing and music-making, lower leaf shows young man in a cabriolet (light, two-wheeled carriage). Reverse: upper leaf shows marine scene, lower leaf shows a landscape with two figures and classical ruins.

Iconclass

48CC7524
one person playing percussion instrument - CC - out of doors
48CC7525
one person playing wind instrument - CC - out of doors
43C7131
simple dances
48CC73513
transverse flute - CC - out of doors
48CC73411
tambourine - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

French or German origin

RIdIM record id

5949