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Woman's Folding Fancirca 1780

Not on view
Fully open folding fan with ivory pierced sticks, a parchment-colored leaf decorated with gold printed borders, and three painted figurative vignettes in oval cartouches
Painted fan leaf on silk, depicting three 18th-century figures in a garden setting: a man in red coat kneeling beside a seated woman in white, gesturing toward a second woman in blue at right. Central vignette framed by elaborate gold sequin embroidery and floral garlands on a pale silk ground.

Unknown, Woman's Folding Fan, circa 1780, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. Miguel A. Llanos, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Woman's Folding Fan
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1780
Medium
Silk plain weave, painted, with silk ribbon, sequins, and metallic-thread embroidery, and bone
Dimensions
Length of guard: 9 3/4 in. (24.77 cm); Spread: 17 1/4 in. (43.82 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. Miguel A. Llanos
Accession Number
M.81.245.4
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.