Fan

Fernando Coustellier and Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rare survival celebrating Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville, this French fan intentionally harkens to Spanish design and is inscribed with the title, character names, and even part of the score of the opera. The printer and publisher Fernando Coustellier, who has signed and dated the fan, belonged to a long-established Parisian family of fan-makers. Soon after making this fan, he moved premises around 1830 to Valencia. In this example, Coustellier's print has been colorfully hand-tinted.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art