éventail en ivoire, Pays Bas, vers 1720-1730

les brins sculptés de paysans dansant à la manière de Teniers, la feuille peinte des dieux de l'Olympe réunis devant Ulysse pour décider de son sort et de celui de Calypso


the sticks carved with dancing Tenier-like country figures, the leaf very finely painted with the assembling Gods of Olympia judging Calypso and Ulysses




 

Bianca M. du Mortier, Fans and Fan Leaves, 1650-1800, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, catalogue d'exposition, novembre 1992 - février 1993, p. 5.

Both guards with old breaks and metal reinforcement, the sticks with various degrees of yellowing. The leaf with inevitable paint loss along folds and several splits along upper margin, the largest 2.5cm.
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La feuille dépeint plusieurs épisodes de l'Odyssée. Au centre, les dieux de l'Olympe, sous l'influence de Minerve, décident que Calypso doit relâcher Ulysse afin qu'il poursuive sa route vers Ithaque. A droite, Calypso, désespérée, annonce au héros la décision des dieux. Le paysage à gauche évoque Ithaque. Un autre modèle présentant presque la même composition mais inversée, probablement hollandais, est conservé au Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. A211.

The leaf subject combines several episodes from the Odyssey. In the middle, the Gods, encouraged by Minerva, decree that the nymph Calypso must release Odysseus so that he may return to Ithaca (I: 1-94). On the right, the despairing Calypso telling Odysseus of the gods' decision (V:151). The landscape on the left is probably intended as Ithaca. Another fan, showing almost the same composition in reverse, attibuted to the Netherlands is at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. A211.