More lovely hand-fans just in time for the end of summer. Taken from the September email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris. I am reworking the descriptions slightly in terms of English grammar but the descriptions and research are by Fan d’Eventails and taken from the information with the image.

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Camaïeu fan, made in the 19th century that imitates 18th century fans that comes with its Duvelleroy case. 19th century monochrome pink leather leaf, painted with chinoiserie and gallant scenes with 18th century sticks and guards done by Compagnie des Indes, with alternating natural and pink-dyed sticks with Chinese Motifs. Made in France by Maison Duvelleroy. According to family tradition, this fan could be one of those brought back into fashion by the Duchess of Berry’s ball held in 1829, for which Duvelleroy made the leaf imitating the 18th century style and combined it with antique sticks and guards. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4461-a-camaieu-fan-for-the-duchess-of-berry-s-ball-duvelleroy-fan-circa-1828.html
Hand-fan, the skin leaf being mounted à l’anglaise and painted with three cartouches: in the center, the abduction of the beautiful Helen by Paris, framed by gallanet scenes in the style of Watteau. The borders and ornamentation with its floral and plant motifs are Chinese work with the same being true of the reverse side of the leaf. The pierced, carved, engraved, painted and varnished sticks and guards are the work of the Compagnie des Indes. ca. 1750. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4455-helene-et-paris-eventail-vers-17-.html
Hand-fan. Color gradient stenciled ombré paper leaf with gold-embossed paper applied to the edges and a chromolithograph depicting a couple near an altar of love inspired by Ovid and his poems. Exotic wood sticks and guards. ca. 1830. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4460-l-ombre-de-l-amour-d-ovide-eventail-ombre-vers-18.html
Madama Butterfly fan. Fabric leaf painted with a Japanese scene inspired by the opera Madama Butterfly, with applied bakelite for the characters’ heads. Undated but after February 17, 1904 when the opera was first staged in Milan. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4112-japanese-fantasy-fan-circa-1930.html

 

Paul et Virginie fan. Painted skin leaf depicting an episode from the novel Paul et Virginie. Mother-of-pearl sticks and guards. ca. 1825. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4457-paul-and-virginie-fan-circa-1825.html

Royalist hand-fan, the paper leaf decorated with golden fleurs-de-lis and featuring an engraving of the royal family, entitled Domine Salvos fac Regem Reginam et Delphinum, based on the religious chant of the Ancien Régime. ca. 1790. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4456-royalist-fan-circa-1790.html
King and Queen of Sardinia hand-fan. Printed paper leaf with gouache highlights depicting the royal couple Charles-Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia (1798-1849) and his Maria-Theresa of Habsburg-Tuscany (1801-1855). Bone sticks and guards, the guards applied with mother-of-pearl. ca. 1835-1840. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/4465-c.html
The Queen of the Night from the Magic Flute fan. A large fan with a silk leaf printed and enhanced with gouache, depicting the appearance of a queen, possibly evoking the Queen of the Night from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (Act I, Scene VI), as seen in Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s sets from 1816 onwards. Wooden guards and cardboard sticks, entirely covered in leather. ca. 1890. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-september-2025/4459-the-queen-of-the-night-from-the-magic-flute-fan-circa-1890.html

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