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Fan
After: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
Engraved by: Charles Nicolas Cochin, père (French, 1688–1754)
Engraved by: Charles Nicolas Cochin, père (French, 1688–1754)
about 1732
Object Place: Italy (?)
Medium/Technique
Skin leaf painted in gouache; pierced and carved mother-of-pearl sticks; paste
Dimensions
Guard: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.); maximum open: 48.5 cm (19 1/8 in.); arc: 130°
Credit Line
Oldham Collection
Accession Number1976.220
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionSingle skin leaf. Obverse: "The Fruit Pickers" (after the painting "La Terre" by Nicholas Lancret), pastoral scene of men and women picking fruit and tending flowers primarily in grays and oranges, narrow green border. Reverse: young couple playing with whirl-a-gig, black wavy lines on blades, narrow green border. Eighteen pierced and carved mother-of-pearl sticks in conventionalized design of figures, mythological animals and flowers, diamond paste studs in rivet.
ProvenanceBefore 1976, Collection DeWitt Clinton Cohen; by 1976, Collection, Esther Oldham, gift of Esther Oldham to MFA, June 9, 1976.