Semi-Circular Design with Grotesques and a Central Medaillon containin

A fan-shaped sheet with a central oval medallion showing a pale blue sky, a tall tree and distant hills. Flanking it are slender grotesque scrolls with a standing figure in drapery, birds, flowers and foliage, rendered in pen, gray ink and soft watercolor.

Look closer: A small bird perched in the upper right scroll near the fan's edge.

Artist

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Date

18th century

Medium

Pen and gray ink, brush with gray, red green, pink and blue watercolor over lead; framing outlines in pen and gray ink

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3933 × 1870 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952