Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Fanmania
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
48 documented works
Edgar Degas
Fan Mount: The Ballet
1879
Watercolor and metallic paint on silk
6 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (15.6 x 54 cm)
View at museumCamille Pissarro
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
ca. 1878–79
Gouache on silk
6 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (16.5 x 52.1 cm)
View at museumHenri-Charles Guérard
Fan Design with Cats and Sunflowers
ca. 1885–90
Pen and black ink over black chalk or graphite, gouache and gold leaf on prepared (stiffened) patterned silk
12 1/16 × 23 3/4 in. (30.6 × 60.4 cm) [semicircle]
View at museumAbraham Bosse|Jean I Leblond
The Gallery of the Palace of Justice
ca. 1638
Etching; first state of two
Sheet (trimmed): 9 7/8 × 12 9/16 in. (25.1 × 31.9 cm)
View at museumUtagawa Toyokuni I
御影堂扇屋図|The Mieidō Fan Shop
ca. 1785–93
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Each H. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm); W. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)
View at museumBritish
Folding Fan Depicting a Mask
ca. 1745
Paper and ivory
10 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (27 x 49.5 cm)
View at museumFrançois Boucher|Antoine Watteau
Femme assise, de profil à droite, jouant de l'eventail
1720–70
Etching
sheet: 15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in. (40 x 30.9 cm) plate: 12 15/16 x 8 7/16 in. (32.8 x 21.5 cm)
View at museumGeorge Wilson
The Ladies Bill of Fare, or, a Copious Collection of Beaux
1795
Etching and stipple engraving, hand colored
View at museumAnonymous, French, 18th century
Fan Design with Republican Assignats (French Revolutionary Money)
ca. 1795
Etching, a small portion printed in color
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (28.6 × 49.5 cm) Framed: 16 × 21 in. (40.6 × 53.3 cm)
View at museumAnonymous, French, early 19th century
Fan Leaf Decorated with Caricatures and Reversible Heads
early 19th century
Etching on prepared green paper
sheet: 12 5/16 x 21 1/4 in. (31.3 x 53.9 cm)
View at museumChinese, for the European Market
Lorgnette Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden
mid-18th century
Paper, ivory, and silk
11 1/2 x 20 in. (29.2 x 50.8 cm)
View at museumFernando Coustellier and Co.
Fan
ca. 1818
Paper, ivory, silver
8 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (21.6 × 41.3 cm)
View at museumConstantin Guys
Two Gentlemen and a Lady
n.d.
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, green and blue wash, over graphite; touches of red chalk
sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in. (24.4 x 18.6 cm)
View at museumEdgar Degas
Dancer with a Fan
ca. 1880
Pastel on gray-green laid paper
24 x 16 1/2 in. (61 x 41.9 cm)
View at museumEdgar Degas
Dancer with a Fan
ca. 1890–95
Pastel and charcoal on buff-colored wove tracing paper
21 7/8 x 19 1/4 in. (55.6 x 48.9 cm)
View at museumThomas Way|James McNeill Whistler
The Toilet
1878
Lithotint, with scraping and incising, on a prepared half-tint ground; second state of five
Image: 10 1/8 x 6 7/16 in. (25.7 x 16.4 cm) Sheet: 12 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (30.8 x 19.7 cm)
View at museumHenri Somm
Japonisme
1881
Drypoint
Plate: 9 1/2 x 12 9/16 in. (24.1 x 31.9 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 x 14 7/16 in. (27.4 x 36.6 cm)
View at museumTeisai Hokuba
Two fans with auspicious crane and long-lived turtle (minogame) motifs
19th century
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (18.7 x 26 cm)
View at museumKitagawa Utamaro
Fan Vendor
1790s
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
H. 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm); W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
View at museumUtagawa Kunisada
Woman with a Folding Fan and Hand Mirror, from the series Sensuous Young Women of Contemporary Times
19th century
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Image: 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.9 x 22.2 cm)
View at museumUtagawa Hiroshige
Chrysanthemums in Fan-shaped Design
1840s
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
H. 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm); W. 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm)
View at museumKitagawa Utamaro
喜多川歌麿画 「南国美人合」 此すミ|The Courtesan Konosumi, from the series “Beauties of the Southern Quarter”(Nangoku bijin awase)
ca. 1793–94
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
14 1/2 x 9 5/16 in. (36.8 x 23.7 cm)
View at museumShibata Zeshin
Waves and Rocks
late 19th century
Fan painting mounted as album leaf; tempera on paper
Overall: 13 x 23 5/8 in. (33 x 60 cm) Image: 7 1/2 x 20 5/8 in. (19.1 x 52.4 cm)
View at museumWatanabe Seitei
Jumping Fish
ca. 1887
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (35.2 x 26.7 cm)
View at museumEdgar Degas
Fan Mount: Dancers
1879
Watercolor and metallic paint on silk
7 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (19.1 x 57.8 cm)
View at museumJin Lan
清 金? 梅花 扇面|Plum
dated 1886
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
7 x 21 in. (17.8 x 53.3 cm)
View at museumAlfred Stevens
The Japanese Robe
ca. 1872
Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (92.7 x 63.8 cm)
View at museumJapan
Incense box in the shape of a folding fan
19th century
Gold and black on gold lacquer ground
H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); L. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
View at museumJapan
Inrō with floating fans
early 19th century
Gold and silver maki-e with black lacquer Ojime: lacquer bead Netsuke: ivory figures
H. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm); W. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); D. 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)
View at museumJapan
染付扇面流し文皿|Dish with Fans Floating on a Stream
ca. 1730–1760s
Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Diam. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
View at museumJapan
Writing box (suzuribako) with folding fans
17th century
Gold and silver maki-e on gold-sprinkled lacquer
H. 2 in. (5.1 cm); W. 9 in. (22.9 cm); D. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
View at museumJapan
Fan with auspicious vernal imagery
17th century
Gold & paper / Carved wood mount
12 3/4 x 19 in. (32.39 x 48.26 cm)
View at museumSpanish
Fan
early 19th century
Ivory, paper, paint, gold leaf, parchment, sequins, silver gilt, enamel mother-of-pearl, silver luster paper, metal
16 1/2 x 9 in. (41.9 x 22.9 cm)
View at museumGoya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Plate 16 from "Los Caprichos": For heaven's sake: and it was her mother (Dios la Perdone: Y era su madre)
1799
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint
Plate: 7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in. (19.7 × 15 cm) Sheet: 11 9/16 x 8 5/16 in. (29.4 x 21.1 cm)
View at museumEdouard Manet|Armand Renaud|Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Philippe Burty
Exotic Flower
1868
Etching and aquatint on laid paper, final state (of two)
6 13/16 x 4 1/2in. (17.3 x 11.4cm) Sheet: 10 15/16 x 7 15/16in. (27.8 x 20.2cm)
View at museumAnders Zorn
The Cousins
1883
Etching; third state of three (Asplund)
Plate: 17 7/16 × 10 15/16 in. (44.3 × 27.8 cm) Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 1/8 in. (50.4 × 33.3 cm)
View at museumPierre-Louis Pierson|Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione
Elvira
1861–67, printed 1940s
Gelatin silver print
36.8 x 41.6 cm. (14 1/2 x 16 3/8 in.)
View at museumpossibly Spanish
Fan
ca. 1858
Lace, mother-of-pearl
Overall (confirmed): 11 × 20 3/8 in. (27.9 × 51.8 cm)
View at museumBerthe Morisot|Marcellin Desboutin
Portrait of Berthe Morisot
ca. 1876
Drypoint; second state of two
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 1/4 in. (48 × 33.7 cm) Plate: 10 7/16 in. × 7 in. (26.5 × 17.8 cm)
View at museumJames Tissot
Spring
1878
Etching and drypoint; only state
Plate: 14 15/16 × 5 3/8 in. (37.9 × 13.6 cm) Sheet: 19 11/16 × 10 1/2 in. (50 × 26.7 cm)
View at museumAnonymous, Italian, Bolognese 18th century artist
Fan Design with Eruption of Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil
18th century
Watercolor and gouache on vellum ?
View at museumItalian
Folding Fan with a Representation of the 1806 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
ca. 1815
Paper, mother-of-pearl, spangles
7 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (19.4 x 38.7 cm)
View at museumBrionde|A. Guillerat
Fan
1885
Leaf of painted and gilt lithograph on paper; sticks and guards of pierced ivory; mother-of-pearl rivet
10 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (26.4 x 50.2 cm)
View at museum