"The Mouth of the Bidasoa" fan

Polished pear wood. 23 cm (rod). Made in Spain.

In this fan, a traditional, effective and sustainable remedy to mitigate the summer heat, is reproduced a detail of The Mouth of the Bidasoa (1872), one of the best paintings by Martín Rico y Ortega. This work was presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 in Paris, where it was qualified as "spiritual, compositions that appear to have been made with drops of light on the end of the brush".