Folding range, consisting of a frame of ajour and sliced ivory painted with watercolor and a leaf of leather, on which a forest and river landscape with three nymphs is painted at the front with gouache and a house hidden on the back between a forestage, anonymous , c. 1760 Folding range, consisting of a frame of ajour and cut ivory painted with watercolor and a leaf of leather, on which a forest and river landscape with three nymphs is painted at the front with Gouache and a house hidden on the back between a forestage. The magazine is mounted à l'Anglaise. The cows extremely left are probabl
Folding range, consisting of a frame of ajour and sliced ivory painted with watercolor and a leaf of leather, on which a forest and river landscape with three nymphs is painted at the front with gouache and a house hidden on the back between a forestage, anonymous , c. 1760 Folding range, consisting of a frame of ajour and cut ivory painted with watercolor and a leaf of leather, on which a forest and river landscape with three nymphs is painted at the front with Gouache and a house hidden on the back between a forestage. The magazine is mounted à l'Anglaise. The cows extremely left are probably a reference to the Beotia region, literally the 'cow country'. It is a area of fertile plains in Central Greece. Here the worship of the charits would have arisen, which would later spread all over Greece. These charits or graces were goddesses of beauty and gracefulness that brought joy, beauty and creation to both people and the gods. On archaic images they were still displayed as three separate women dressed in long robes, but in the 3rd century BC. This creates a performance, which is also resulting in today: three naked women, who hold each other by the shoulders and of which two are displayed frontally, while the third party is seen on the back. The three graces on this fan hide their nudity chaste behind the vegetation. The style in which the dominant blue -tinted fan blade is painted very old -fashioned. It would be inclined to assume that it originated at the beginning of the 18th century. Perhaps an old leaf has been put on a new frame and the narrow, gold -colored ornamental edge was then added. On the back of the leaf is a whole brown and green, painted by tall trees and bushes surrounded by the water. The frame is multi -colored painted and decorated with three asymmetrical reserves built from Rocailles, between which jobs with Chniees -looking 'Grecques'. On the outdoor legs a putto with a winged insect, rocailles with flowers and again 'Grecques' (cf. tent. Ca
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