Folding fan with leaf of goat leather, with gouache on which the Colosseum, the thermal baths of Caracalla (l) and the Tomb of Caecilia Metella (r), on ivory frame, Folding fan (souvenir fan) with leaf of goat leather, which is divided into three fields with gouache at the front with the Colosseum in the flat, central, oval medallion, the thermal baths of Caracalla on the left in a white field and the Tomb of Caecilia on the right in a ditto medallion and field Metella. For the ornamental part of the range, Buti was inspired by the paintings from the Villa Negroni, discovered in 1777. The palmetral edges above the left and right fields are derived from rooms C and G. (For the Villa Negroni see, H. Joyce, 'The Ancient Frescoes from the Villa Negroni', The Art Bulletin LXV (3), 1983, pp. 423-40) Three differently colored butterflies are distributed asymmetrically over the leaf on the back, with an ornament with leaf and flower motif further in the middle. The fan is signed and dated on the leaf in the lower right corner at the back: 'Camillo Buti Roma 1787'. Mounted à l'anglaise on an ivory frame. The ends of the legs are extra reinforced at the rear. A small mother-of-pearl circle is arranged around the locking pin. Neo-classicism, Rome, Colosseum, Baths of Caracalla, Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Camillo Buti, in or before 1787, blad, montuur, sluitpin, cutting, s 51 cm × l 28 cm

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