Stock Photo - Folding fan, consisting of a paper sheet painted in gouache with 'The Judgment of Paris' on a mother-of-pearl frame à jour and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleurs', consisting of a paper gouache leaf painted with 'The Judgment of Paris' on a mother-of-pearl frame à jour and embossed with 'métal and quatre couleurs'. In the central show, Paris sits on a rock and holds a shepherd's staff in his left hand and hands the golden apple to Venus with his right hand. On the left behind Paris is Hermes with his characteristic staff in his hand. To the right of Venus, with amor on the left, stands Athens with helmet and spear and Juno sits with the peacock on a rock. In the left foreground two putti play with a sheep. The show is surrounded by flower garlands, fruits and gold-colored ornaments. In the top left corner a medallion with an elegant young woman dressed in a blue dress and with a blue hat on the head. In the top right corner there is a medallion with an elegant young man with powdered hair and a tail with a black bow, a pink-red frame including a gray cardigan and a white shirt. In the lower left corner a few (tortel) pigeons on a nest, in the lower right corner a few torturing pigeons. The frame consists of 22 contiguous legs, on which four cartouches with music-making and conversing couples. Putti, a trophy with a straw hat, grain sheaves and a flail are placed on the hind legs, under a man or woman with a basket of fruits. On the back of the single leaf a sitting female is painted under a tree. She is dressed in a blue robe à la francaise with a lacing at the center front. A small hat leaning forward on the head and a bouquet in her right hand. The leaf is surrounded by a garland with red roses and blue flowers. Lock pin of green colored glass in a metal setting, the Judgment of Paris (without Mercury), anonymous, France (possibly), c. 1775 - c. 1780, blad, schildering, montuur, sluitpin, steundeel, cutting, l 28.5 cm × s 51 cm

Stock Photo: Folding fan, consisting of a paper sheet painted in gouache with 'The Judgment of Paris' on a mother-of-pearl frame à jour and embossed with 'metal and quatre.

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