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 compositions with views of Roman ruins with staffage. The central one, oval and the largest, depicts the ruins of the Temple of Venus and Roma, while the small, side ones, in tondos, depict the ruins of unidentified buildings. The central view is framed in narrow linear yellow and black frames, with a colourful grotesque on a black background in orange narrow, linear frames. This central decoration with a view of the ruins of the Temple of Venus and Roma is surrounded by two compositions consisting of a view of ruins in a tondo in narrow linear yellow and black frames, the background of which is a multiplied candelabra grotesque ornament, framed from the top and bottom by a pseudo-braided on a brown background, surrounded by candelabra, colourful grotesques on a cream-coloured background in orange linear frames, at the top and the bottom with a grotesque on a dark sapphire background. All three compositions are framed in two narrow linear frames, orange and brown.

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