Fan

The cover of the folded, pleated fan (never attached to the ribs of the frame) is made of white, kid leather decorated with gouache. The decoration consists of three tondos (one larger in the middle) with views of unidentified ruins with a staffage. The tondos are framed in narrow linear yellow and black frames. The middle tondo is decorated in the corners with a colourful arabesque on a malachite background. The central composition is surrounded by the compositions with smaller tondos on the background of rich, colourful grotesques in the form of three stripes in narrow black frames, framed on the sides by candelabra colourful grotesques on a white background, with sapphire stripes and colourful arabesque above and below. All compositions are framed in narrow frames in black and orange.

The described fan cover belongs to the collection of 16 fan covers purchased by the Museum-Zamek in Łańcut; 11 of them, including the ones described, form a cycle decorated with ruins of ancient buildings painted by the same painter.

dr Aldona Cholewianka - Kruszyńska