L'amour selon les dieux, circa 1770-1780... - Lot 40 - Coutau-Bégarie

L'amour selon les dieux, circa 1770-1780 Folded fan, the skin sheet mounted in English style and painted on a beige background with five medallions. Among garlands of flowers, two medallions are painted with purple ships. In the center, the butterfly-winged god Zephyr appears before Flore in her garden. On the left, Meleager offers the head of the boar Calydon to Atalanta. On the right, Daphne transforms into a tree before Diana's eyes as Apollo pursues her. White mother-of-pearl mounting, richly engraved in silver and gold with doves and altars of Love, recalling the subject of the leaf. H.t. 28 cm - H.f. 13.3 cm (good condition, small accidents, restorations, small missing parts) In a Duvelleroy box. 19th century