Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'The Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur', Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'Gouache' Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur'. In a particularly finely painted central field, the king's son and shepherd Paris designate the goddess Aphrodite as the winner of the beauty contest fought between her and the goddesses Athena and Hera. Hera with the peacock and Athena with helmet and shield watching from a cloud in the distance.
Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'The Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur', Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'Gouache' Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur'. In a particularly finely painted central field, the king's son and shepherd Paris designate the goddess Aphrodite as the winner of the beauty contest fought between her and the goddesses Athena and Hera. Hera with the peacock and Athena with helmet and shield watching from a cloud in the distance. The story about 'The Judgment of Paris' that dates back to the 1st century AD. was recorded by Lucian of Samosata (ca. 120-180 AD), was published many times in Dutch translations in the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. With Van Mander (1548-1606), Krul (1601 / 2-1646) and Poot (1689-1733) it got a moralizing tone and Paris was a light-hearted young man who preferred the sensuous pleasures (Aphrodite) to wisdom (Athena) and the power (Hera). In another interpretation, the story was used as a praise for the woman who brought together all the qualities that Paris had to choose from. It seems as if the medallions on the left and right have been hung on twisted cords, which further depend on rings along the edge of the leaf. On top of the frame of these medallions, in which various wedding symbols, such as a wedding altar with two turtledoves and a dog, are two torturing pigeons. These motifs return in the painting on the back. The frame is almost entirely filled by a gallant party with entangled love couples, musicians and singers surrounded by putti with flower garlands. In a oval on the right outer leg a putto with an open mousetrap, the Judgment of Paris (without Mercury), anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1780 - c. 1790, blad, montuur, sluitpin, painting, s cm × l cm
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