Fan

From 1890 to 1910 fans made in Paris were very sumptuous. Their style and subject-matter, however, remained fairly traditional. In the early 19th century fan painters copied 18th-century subjects. Here the fan painter has taken a scene from the period 1800 to 1820. However, the romantic overtones remain and it looks like a moment captured from a Jane Austen novel. The decorative design of the fan remains a pastiche of the Rococo style. There is no hint of the new Art Nouveau style that was influencing the other decorative arts at this time.