英文摘要 |
The earliest surviving designs of French hand-held fans (called ''écranàmain'' in French) date from the early seventeenth century, which had three kinds of types: Folding-fans, Round-fans, and Cockade-fans. From the La Mode in the Louis XIV's printmakers' designs at end of the seventeenth century, we learned these fans served purposes of keeping cool in summer, sheltering from the smoke of the fireplace in winter, and as decorative accessories for fashionable ladies. In Eighteenth Century France, almost all the important Chinese-Style designers, such as Watteau, Bellay, Boucher, Huquier, Peyrotte, and Pillement, had Round-fan face designs. This kind of fan mainly composes decorations in the border and the theme in the center area. This paper firstly makes a brief introduction of the development history of French fan designs from the 17th to the18th century, then discusses a set of twelve round fan designs with Chinese- Style created by Gabriel Huquier(1695-1772) between 1738 and 1749. This set is a rare work at that time with Chinese elements as the frame and imitating Chinese landscape paintings as the theme, so that it has a high historical value. Most of the Chinese border design and landscape painting composition used are taken from the export artworks of the Kangxi period, such as lacquer screens (so called“Coromandel screens”),Chinese export porcelain, or might refer to the Chinese paintings or prints collected by the Royal Library or Huquier’s. Therefore, this set of works may be regarded as one of the testimonies of French decorative art influenced by Chinese art. |