Private fans collection of Evgeniya Doremidova
Saint-Petersburg

Hand fan “The Judgment of Solomon”

The double leaf in skin painted with arabesques. In the center famous scene of the judgment of King Solomon from Raphael`s fresco in Vatican. On the left, a man sacrificing a bull; on the right a man visiting a bedridden sovereign, in the taste of frescoes discovered in Pompeii and Herculanum. On verso painted peacock on a basket of roses and laurel branches.