Eventail plié
1842
unspecified
From the collection of Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
1842
unspecified
From the collection of Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Dominant colour
Eventail plié is a 1842 unspecified by Veuve Dupré et Cie, depicting Applique, held at Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.
This fan shows a painted scene of a group of people walking in a countryside setting. The background includes a church, trees, and a winding path beside a body of water. The edges of the fan are decorated with gold patterns and floral designs. The fan’s handle and blades are made of a light material, possibly carved bone or wood, with intricate cut-out designs. The watercolor painting inside looks soft and detailed, with bright colors for the sky and greens for the landscape. If you like this kind of delicate painting, look up *watercolor* to see how artists use layers of transparent colors.
She was the Paris studio Dupré & Co., a quiet factory of delicate fans that married fashion to art—each fold of paper was hand-painted with tiny Parisian street scenes you could hide behind your wrist.
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