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Landscapes by American painter Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925). Various collections. Mostly with trees, one with just water.

"Morning." Undated.
“Morning.” Undated. Image courtesy Peabody Institute. In the public domain due to age. via http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/dwight-william-tryon-and-his-early-spring/
"After Sunset looking East." 1915. Painting.
“After Sunset looking East.” 1915. Painting. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_sunset_looking_east_dwight_william_tryon.jpeg
"Apple Blossoms." ca. 1895.
“Apple Blossoms.” ca. 1895. Painting. Signed D W Tryon 1805″ on the bottom right. Uploaded by and collection of the Brooklyn Museum. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Apple_Blossoms_-_Dwight_William_Tryon_-_overall.jpg
"Before Sunrise, June 1905." 1905.
“Before Sunrise, June.” 1905. Oil on canvas. Image © 2019 Detroit Institute of Arts. Fair use license. via https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/sunrise-june-63762
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Family portraits by American painter Eastman Johnson. Living from 1824 to 1906 he studied art in Düsseldorf, The Hague and Paris. One of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Portrait of the Brown family. Based on a Matthew Brady photograph.  1869.
Portrait of the Brown family. Based on a Matthew Brady photograph. 1869. Collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Cc0 license 1.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portraits_(The_Brown_Family)_by_Eastman_Johnson,_1869,_oil_on_canvas,_based_on_a_Mathew_Brady_photograph_-_De_Young_Museum_-_DSC00950.JPG
Christmas Time: The Blodgett Family. 1864.
Christmas Time: The Blodgett Family. 1864. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11258
Alfrederick Hatch Family. 1870-1871.
Alfrederick Hatch Family. 1870-1871. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11263

Look like the Empress Eugenie if only for an afternoon. Images from an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868, created in Paris, France. By an anonymous artist who must have been a highly accomplished fashion artist. Found on the website of antiquarian book dealer Justin Croft.

Lady wearing a white, green and blue dress with a matching hat. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Young woman or teenager in a pale blue and white dress with a large bow worn with a velvet? jacket and a veiled hat. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Woman wearing a mask, her braided hair tied with a red ribbon. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Woman wearing a winter ensemble in green and brown with a jacket, her hair tied with a blue ribbon. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Dark haired woman dressed in a red and white striped dress and shawl. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Barefoot woman wearing a blue and white skirt and carrying a shepardess’s crook. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/
Young woman dressed in a blue dress with a brown over skirt and an orange/red shawl. From an album of 50 watercolors depicting women’s fashions for the years. 1867-1868 that was created in Paris, France by an anonymous artist. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7568/fashion/an-album-of-50-watercolours-depicting-womens-fashion/

Marbled and chromolithographic papers in various colors taken from a book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. ca. 1910. Inscribed “J. L. Carroll” on the first page. Found on the website of rare book and ephemera dealer James E. Arsenault.

Number 38. Glazed marble lining and end-sheet paper. ca. 1910. From a sample book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8160/lithograph-lining-papers
Number 10, Agate lining and end-sheet paper. ca. 1910. From a sample book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8160/lithograph-lining-papers
Number 15. Gilded lining and end-sheet paper. ca. 1910. From a sample book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8160/lithograph-lining-papers
Number 19. Gilded lining and end-sheet paper. ca. 1910. From a sample book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8160/lithograph-lining-papers
Number 31. Glazed marble lining and end-sheet paper. ca. 1910. From a sample book of marbled and chromolithographic paper samples, apparently produced by an American manufacturer. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8160/lithograph-lining-papers

Make your own breeze on a hot day. Fans for June from Fan d’Éventails. Many of these celebrating royal and imperial people but not all. All fun.

Bal des mines hand-fan, the paper leaf printed with a design showing a group of miners throwing their picks and lamps to scare off Turkish and Russian soldiers. Wooden sticks and guards. 1913. Stamped Bail Cotillon Paris on the back. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3566-bal-des-mines-fan-1913.html
Brienne’s disgrace and Necker’s praise revolutionary fan. Bone sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed in intaglio and enhanced with gouache, announcing the dismissal of Brienne and the recall of Necker by King Louis XVI in 1788, to redress public finances. There is a song to the tune of Vaudeville des deux morts on the back. ca. 1788. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3554-brienne-s-disgrace-and-necker-s-praise-revolutionnary-fan-circa-1788.html

Bone fan, with fabric windows painted Hand-fan in bone with fabric windows painted with fanciful coats of arms. Late 19th c. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3570-fanciful-coat-of-arms-late-19th-century.html
Jacobitism hand-fan, the chromolithographed paper leaf printed with a romantic evocation of the Jacobite rising of 1745, led by Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”). Made ca. 1860 with the sticks and guards pierced, printed and varnished in the 18th century style. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3539-idees.html
Napoleon and Marie-Louise fan leaf. Engraved paper fan leaf with gouache, depicting the union of the imperial couple, Napoleon and Marie-Louise. ca. 1810. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3555-napoleon-and-marie-louise-fan-leaf-circa-1810.html

Hand-fan, the skin leaf painted with the marriage of Leopold of Hapsburg-Lorrraine (1747-1792), future Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the Infanta of Spain, Maria-Luisa de Bourbon (1745-1792), daughter of Charles III of Spain and Marie-Amélie de Saxe, celebrated in Innsbruck on August 5, 1765. ca. 1765. Pierced, painted and varnished sticks and guards. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3556-the-wedding-of-leopold-ii-of-austria-and-marie-louise-of-spain-fan-circa-1765.html

Portraits of Lake Albano in Italy over time by different painters. Where the pope summers.

Lago di Albano. Before 1825. Russian. Oil on canvas. Sylvester Shchedrin, painter (1791-1830). Image source staratel.com. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schedrin_Albano.jpg
Lake Albano. ca. 1760. British. Oil on canvas. George Lambert, painter (1700-1765). Collections of the Yale Center for British Art. In the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/lake-albano-george-lambert-1700%E2%80%931765-british/XgHV1sk_i-rJNg?hl=en
Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo. 1826-1827. French. Camille Corot, painter (1796–1875). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435974
Figures by Lake Albano with Castel Gandolfo. 1795. English. Thomas Barker of Bath, painter (1769-1847). Collections of and image © Denver Art Museum 2022. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/1993.331

Exotic up your winter no matter how many sleet storms there are. Wallpaper panels of “Telemachus on the Island of Calypso” by the firm of Joseph Dufour et Cie which was founded in 1797. Printed in Paris, France. All of these being part of the same lot up for bid with Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers who are part of the Bonhams network.

Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292

From the auctioneer’s description on this lot’s website page:

“Panoramic wallpaper: Already at the end of the 18th century, panoramic wallpaper was ready to replace tapestries and silk panels, which had become too expensive for bourgeois and aristocratic homes. The motifs showing the neoclassical style, which was in vogue at the time, experienced an unprecedented growth and many workshops appeared, both in Paris and in the provinces. Joseph Dufour’s workshop was one of the most famous of them and compete with the other wallpaper companig called Zuber. Joseph Dufour was born in Tramayes (today in Saône-et-Loire) in 1754, he first settled in Macon, where his factory was founded in 1797, before settling in Paris ten years later. The designers Laffitte and Xavier Mader brought their talent to the company and gained traction and popularity in all parts of society. Dufour then began his production of panoramic papers, often depicting colorful classical, oriental or even very exotic landscapes from the shores of the Bosphorus to the islands of the South Sea or as we discover at this sale architectural landscapes with animated mythological scenes, showing young girls in Greco-Roman tunics and uniformed soldiers on horseback, while elsewhere they indulge in the joys of the swing.”

Dreaming the summer way with American artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Living from 1851 to 1938, he studied at the  Académie Julian in Paris.

Summer. ca. 1890. American. Oil on canvas. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938). Collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Dewing_%E2%80%93_Summer.jpg
Lady in Yellow. 1888. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938). Collections of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Wilmer_Dewing_-Lady_in_YellowP1w3-_Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum.jpg
The White Birch. ca. 1896-1900. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938).via https://corvusfugit.com/2017/07/08/1891-the-song/thomas-wilmer-dewing-the-white-birich-c-1896-1900/
The Recitation. 1891-1892. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938).via https://corvusfugit.com/2017/07/08/1891-the-song/thomas-wilmer-dewing-the-recitation-1891-2/

Pretty up that vestibule or conservatory floor. Sample sheets from the mosaic factory of Villeroy and Boch, Mettlach, Germany. 1886. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Part 1, wall panels.

Number 17. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 13 and 21. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Number 53. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 67 and 68. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 71 and 72. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 77, 78, 79 and 80. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 91 and 92. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 93 and 94. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
Numbers 59 and 60. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html

Off to see the sights. Imagery of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which was held in San Francisco, California from February to December of 1915.

Tower of Jewels and Fountain of Energy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Festival Hall and South Gardens. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Doorway Varied Industries Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
The End of the Trail. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Palace of Horticulture. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Avenue of Palms and Tower of Jewels).Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Educational Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Court of the Four Seasons. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Fountain of Energy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
California Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Sectional view of South Gardens, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Avenue of Palms with Liberal Arts Building and Italian Tower. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album

A benchmark in San Francisco history, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition reflected the ascendance of the United States to the world stage and highlighted San Francisco’s grandeur. It drew nearly nineteen million visitors. The exhibition was intended to be temporary—the buildings being made of wood, plaster, and burlap to make them easy to demolish. The only portion to survive is the Palace of Fine Arts, which was rebuilt in the ‘60s with more permanent materials.

Hand-fans in fun colors just in time for late spring and early summer. From Fan d’Eventail, Paris.

A small brisé fan in bakelite evoking the Futurism movement by its composition and its colors. ca. 1920-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3530-futurism-fan-circa-1920-30.html

Fan with a wallpaper leaf in the taste of the Symbolists. 20th c. Framed and under glass. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3535-symbolist-hill-fan-leaf-xxth-century.html
Circus fan with a paper leaf painted with a clown and a little monkey. Wooden sticks and guards, the throat partially painted, the master guard applied with a blue tinted mother-of-pearl. 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3520-the-colors-of-the-circus-20th-century-fan.html
Small hand-fan, the leaf in fuchsia pink fabric painted with an elegant couple ready to dance, their heads in painted Bakelite with Galalith sticks and guards in imitation of tortoiseshell. Monogrammed on the bottom left. ca. 1920s-1930s. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3529-the-marquis-at-the-party-art-deco-fan.html

Small “Sultane” hand-fan, the blue silk leaf applied with a white lace border. “Sultane” sticks and guards made of engraved and grilled bone. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3534-sultane-blue-fan-circa-1870-1900.html

Hotel décor from the old days in Paris. Doesn’t look that way anymore but you can always dream of Sarah Bernhardt stopping by for tea. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields).

Escalier, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63484/
Vestibule, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/61332/
Salle de Bains, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63483/
Vestibules, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63509/
Vestibule, Hôtel de Menier, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63522
Grand Salon, hôtel, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63521/
Vestibule, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63494/