"The Virgin and Child in a Painting surrounded by Fruit and Flowers" fan

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

This beautiful fan reproduces a detail from The Virgin and Child in a Painting surrounded by Fruit and Flowers (1617-1620), the result of a collaboration between Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Its leaf is decorated with part of the exuberant garland in which these masters demonstrate an exquisite delicacy in the details of each element against the depth of an intensely blue sky.