Catching the woman in his nets, fan leaf by Willette, circa 1900-10
Catching the woman in his nets, fan leaf by Willette, circa 1900-10
Silk fan leaf printed with a Pierrot catching a nude woman in his butterfly net.
Signed A. Willette
Good condition (a few stains and foxing)
Framed and under glass
Dimensions : +/-31 x 62 cm ( max with fame 48 x 77 cm)
A similar fan-leaf project (in paper, red chalk and pencil) appeared in the exhibitions Adolphe Willette - 1857-1926. “J'étais bien plus heureux quand j'étais malheureux” at the Musée Louis Senlecq and then at the Musée Félicien Rops (in 2014-2015) and in the catalog (Lienart Editions, Paris, 2014), in historian and expert Georgina Letourmy-Bordier's article ‘Un vent de folie ou les éventails de Willette’ (p. 156-167).
Here we learn that this project served as a model for the publication of wooden fans. The newspaper Le Matin of May 4, 1896 refers to it as “a fan [...] very simple, very light in the hand, a leaf of silk drawn in sanguine, with a Pierrot hunting butterflies, taking in his net a laughing naked woman, chubby and delicate. It's light, charming, ornamental, totally worthy of the Montmartre master”. (p. 162).
Signed A. Willette
Good condition (a few stains and foxing)
Framed and under glass
Dimensions : +/-31 x 62 cm ( max with fame 48 x 77 cm)
A similar fan-leaf project (in paper, red chalk and pencil) appeared in the exhibitions Adolphe Willette - 1857-1926. “J'étais bien plus heureux quand j'étais malheureux” at the Musée Louis Senlecq and then at the Musée Félicien Rops (in 2014-2015) and in the catalog (Lienart Editions, Paris, 2014), in historian and expert Georgina Letourmy-Bordier's article ‘Un vent de folie ou les éventails de Willette’ (p. 156-167).
Here we learn that this project served as a model for the publication of wooden fans. The newspaper Le Matin of May 4, 1896 refers to it as “a fan [...] very simple, very light in the hand, a leaf of silk drawn in sanguine, with a Pierrot hunting butterflies, taking in his net a laughing naked woman, chubby and delicate. It's light, charming, ornamental, totally worthy of the Montmartre master”. (p. 162).
