Fans to waft the spring breezes in a bit sooner if only in your mind. The latest fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Tortoiseshell brisé fan, finely pierced and carved. 19th c. Chinese. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/4608-chinese-tortoisehell-19th-century-fan.html

Gallantry fan with a painted leather leaf and mother-of-pearl sticks and guards. by Jeanne Cahulle for the fan-maker Alexandre. Late 19th c.French. Signed Jeanne Catulle and on the reverse Alexandre. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4614-gallantry-fan-by-jeanne-cahulle-for-alexandre-late-19th-century.html

Hermes et Herse fan. Tortoiseshell brisé fan, pierced and painted with a central panel depicting an episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The gorge is painted with chinoiserie motifs; The guards are carved, engraved, and gilded with floral and bird motifs.circa 1690-1720. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4604-hermes-et-herse-eventail-vers-1700.html

Japanese birds fan. Lacquered Brisé fan. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/4628-japanese-birds-fan-circa-1900.html

New fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris. I’d add something about summer breezes but we’re into the next snowstorm here. Please hope I don’t get snowed in! Thanks!

Bergerade fan. Skin leaf painted with a gallant pastoral scene and sculpted, pierced and engraved sticks and guards, decorated with gold and silver leaf and burgau. ca. 1760. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4602-bergerade-fan-circa-1760.html

Hand-fan with a paper leaf printed with birds and insects and wooden sticks and guards, the guard applied with a metal insect that I think is a ladybug. Maybe not. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4595-birds-and-insects-late-19th-century-fan.html

Fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the silk leaf embroidered with butterflies and cicadas. 19th c. Made in China. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/4600-butterflies-and-cicadas-19th-century-chinese-fan.html

Golden pheasant fan with a painted gauze leaf and wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890-1900. Ronot-Tutin, maker. Signed Ronot-Tutin. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-february-2026/4593-golden-pheasant-by-ronot-tutin-fan-circa-1890-1900.html

Hand fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards with marquetry using Himalayan monal feathers. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4599-himalayan-monal-feather-fan-circa-1900.html

Hand-fan with a lace and red gauze leaf painted with roosters. Wooden sticks and guards with the top of the main guard carved with a polychrome rooster’s head. ca. 1890-1910. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4591-roosters-fan-circa-1890-1910.html

The Owl hand fan with wooden sticks and guards and a gauze leaf painted with an owl and embroidered with sequins. ca. 1909. Liberty and Company. They were/still are based in London but opened a Paris store in 1889-1890. Liberty still sells beautiful floral fabric but in 1909 they were selling fans, silver and many other Aesthetic Movement objects, too. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4577-the-owl-by-liberty-co-fan-circa-1909.html

Hand-fans from Fan d’Eventails of Paris. One with mermaids and two from Duvelleroy.

Hand-fan, 18th century in style with chinoiserie but made later. Painted skin leaf depicting a bucolic scene with gilded chinoiserie with the reverse side being painted paper, White mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, pierced, engraved, burguated and applied with gold and silver leaf. French. No exact date but signed on the reverse by the fan maker Duvelleroy so after 1827 when Duvelleroy was founded. Comes with its case from the house of Duvelleroy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4564-3.html

Black butterflies jewel fan with a lace and black gauze leaf painted and embroidered with sequins and black beads in floral basket and butterfly motifs. Black wooden sticks, jewel-like guards decorated with black beads and faceted black glass. Made ca. 1890-1905. Signed Tutin. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4566-5.html

Farandole of cherubs with flowers fan. Pont de gaze leaf with floral motifs and white mother-of-pearl sticks and guards carved with torches, pierced, engraved, and decorated with gold and silver leaf depicting a joyful farandole of cherubs. ca. 1900. Possibly by Louis-Honoré Henneguy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4569-9.html

Hand-fan with a gauze leaf embroidered with threads, sequins and fabrics and mother-of-pearl. Art Nouveau. Maker not known. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4565-4.html

Large brisé fan made of pierced and carved mother-of-pearl. Spanish. Late 20th c. Blay Villa, maker. Signed by the Spanish fan-maker Blay Villa. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/modern-fans/4568-8.html

Mermaid and seaweed fan with a golden Meunier tulle (metallic) leaf, embroidered with blue/green fabric and sequins forming small waves. Engraved and gilded horn sticks and guards, applied with paua mother-of-pearl. ca. 1900-1910. French. Signed on the reverse by the maker, Duvelleroy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4567-7.html

More Art Deco era hand fans from Fan d’Eventails Paris, all of these with a bit of orange though far less than a fall farmstand filled with pumpkins has.

Black sunflower fan, the black fabric leaf being painted with stylized sunflowers. Black synthetic sticks and guards, the guard applied with a sunflower. ca. 1925-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4539-tournesol.html

Advertising fan for Galeries Lafayette in Paris and its many branches around the world. Rigid cardboard fan printed from an illustration by Jack Roberts. ca. 1931. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4536-aux-galeries-la-fayette-eventail-publicitaire-d-apres-jack-roberts-vers-1931.html

Phosphorescent advertising fan for the Lumineux Radiana, phosphorescent advertising fan for the firm Radiana. Paper leaf printed with phosphorescent ink and wooden sticks and guards with the luminous effect in the dark only lasting a few seconds. Inscribed LUMINEUX RADIANA _ Bté S.G.D.G. 23, Bd des Italiens _ PARIS and Éventails CHAMBRELENT, PARIS. with Fernand Sauvagé via his company Radiana having filed for a patent for ‘luminous ink for printing’ on May 6, 1922. ca. 1925. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4557-radiana-eventail-lumineux-vers-1922-23.html

Radiana phosphorescent ‘luminous’ fan. Balloon-shaped fan, the white leaf with mechanical lace applied to tulle, decorated with flowers and dots applied with phosphorescent paint with the luminous effect in the dark only lasting a few seconds. Bone sticks and guards. Fernand Sauvagé via his company Radiana filed for a patent for his ‘luminous ink for printing’ invention on January 31, 1922. ca. 1922-1923. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4532-radiana-eventail-lumineux-vers-1922-23.html

Flamenco dancer fan. A large balloon-shaped fan with black tulle applied with painted silk depicting a flamenco dancer and embroidered with sequins. Blackened wooden sticks and blue synthetic guards. Art Deco. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4544-danseuse.html

Feathery fans dyed fun colors. At least as far as I know ostriches aren’t orange. From Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Three large ostrich feather fans in green, pink and white; the pink and green having synthetic sticks and guards while the white has mother-of-pearl. Art Deco, ca. 1920-1925. Makers not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4529-fantastic-feathers-fans-circa-1920-25.html

Blue thrush fan, made of blue bird feathers with the guard applied with the bird’s head (possibly a blue thrush). Synthetic sticks and guards. ca. 1922. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Advertisements from Duvelleroy fan maker for this type of fan, featuring “the bird caught in flight,” can be found in Vogue magazine from December 1922. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4535-oiseau-bleu.html

Orange and black set comprising a fan and a bag, the fan featuring a multi-lobed black lace leaf topped with orange ostrich feathers in two shades. Synthetic sticks and guards. The matching bag with its mirror and pouch, the bag in silk and orange ostrich feathers with a black synthetic clasp decorated with dancers and musicians in antique style and registered Paris. Art Deco, ca. 1921. French. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4549-parure-sac-eventail-orange.html

Hand fans from the October email of Fan d’Eventails Paris. Perfect for wafting that potpourri scent along.

Biarritz souvenir fan with a red gauze leaf painted with flowers and birds and embroidered with beads, forming, once the fan is folded, the name of the city Biarritz. Wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4481-biarritz-beads-fan-circa-1890.html

Hand fan with engraved sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed and engraved with allegories of the four seasons and Scandinavian runes, probably from the younger Futhark (a type of runic alphabet in use from the 9th century Viking period). ca. 1730-1740. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4482-mysterious-runes-fan-circa-173040.html

Hand fan with an embroidered and painted silk leaf depicting a scene in which a cat is surprised by the flight of a hot air balloon. Wooden sticks and guards. Late 19th century ish. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4484-cat-in-the-hot-air-balloon-late-th-century-fan.html

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.

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

A heat wave to pretty up and the perfect solution. Antique hand fans to make your own breeze, from the latest email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Arabic dance card fan. Peau d’âne (cardboard) painted with a woman dressed in oriental style with what are probably bone guards which are encrusted with sequins and feature a small pen nestled at the top of the main guard. 1815-1925. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4442-arabic-dance-dance-card-fan-circa-1815-25.html

Pair of advertising hand-fans with paper leaves and wooden sticks and guards. Art Deco period. One for the Casino des Fleurs in Vichy, signed by Riom and the other signed by Umberto Brunelleschi. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4429-belles-orientales-eventails-de-riom-et-brunelleschi-periodeart-deco.html

Chinoiserie painted brisé horn fan. ca. 1820-1830. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4443-chinoiserie-with-acrobats-fan-circa-1820-30.html

Memories of a trip to Egypt fan. Broken wooden fan, re-pierced and painted with several views of Egypt: on one side, the Great Gate of Karnak, the island of Pirilé (Philae?) and the Ibn Touloun Mosque in Cairo; on the other side, the Nile floods of 1866 (localized in French) and blessings to the Prophet in Arabic. Signed and dated C. Gaber 1867. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4432-memories-of-a-trip-to-egypt-fan-circa-1867.html

Fan from the East India Company for the Western market. Skin leaf, mounted in the English style, finely painted in gouache with a scene of trade or judgment between Chinese protagonists, on a pink background imitating wood and a trompe l’oeil ribbon frame
The reverse side is painted with peonies and cherry blossom branches. Finely pierced sticks and guards engraved with geometric decorations and floral motifs. ca. 1760-1770. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4435-that-s-him-east-india-company-fan-circa-1760-70.html

A new grouping of beautiful hand-fans, taken from the July email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Souvenir fan for the Exposition Universelle, held in Paris, France, from April 14 to November 12, 1900. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf being printed with a view of the Porte Monumentale, designed by the architect René Benet. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/4410-1900-paris-exposition.html

Hand fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the fabric leaf being painted with a view of a bay somewhere in the world. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4413-3.html

Fan with blond tortoiseshell sticks and guards and a silk leaf painted with a scene depicting a rider in a valley somewhere in Switzerland with a view of snow-capped mountains in the distance. ca. 1890-1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4392-a-valley-in-switzerland-fan-circa-1870-1900.html

Hand-fan, the fabric leaf painted with a view of Guernsey. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4409-guernsey-fan-circa-1900.html

Large fan with wooden sticks and guards, the printed paper leaf depicting a view of Lake Geneva and the town of Evian les Bains, part of the poster designed by Gauvain for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerrannée railway. Inscribed on the back: Le lac Léman affiche pour Evian. ca. 1905. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4393-le-lac-leman-vu-d-evian-eventail-d-apres-gauvain-vers-1905.html

Souvenir hand fan from the French Embassy in Moscow, Russia. The bistre-colored paper leaf painted with musical attributes, torchères and garlands of flowers. Painted bone sticks and guards. Inscribed on the reverse: EMBASSADE DE FRANCE
MOSCOU MAI 96. Signed on the reverse by the Parisian fan-maker Ernest Kees. With a luxury case from Kees. 1896. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/4406-souvenir-from-the-french-embassy-in-moscow-1896-fan-by-kees.html

Hand fan with wooden sticks and guards, the fabric leaf painted and inscribed Cotes de Normandie. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4398-washerwoman-on-the-normandy-coast-fan-circa-1900.html

Make your own summer breeze with a hand-fan a zillion times more gorgeous than the maps on weather.com. All of these taken from the June email of Fan d’Eventails, Paris, France.

Beauty with carnations hand-fan. Tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the sticks having bone tips with the leaf in very fine point de gaze needle lace and silver cartels painted with carnations and a dreamy young girl. French Second Empire. Maker not known. Lace identified by lace expert Edwige Renaudin. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4349-beauty-with-carnations-second-empire-period-fan.html

Tortoiseshell fan with feather marquetry, painted with two girls sitting on a swing. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4366-girls-feather-fan-circa-1900.html

Bone brisé fan, painted with a scene of ladies greeting the king, after an illustration by Maurice Leloir. Early 20th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4343-ladies-greeting-the-king-fan-after-maurice-leloir-early-20th-century.html

Woman’s reverie fan design. Project for a fan, paper painted with a young woman daydreaming on a balcony overlooking a river. Belle Époque. Framed and under glass. Signed H. Meunié and dated February 1893. The back bears an incomplete exhibition label with the title “Rêverie” and the name of the painter. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/4367-woman-s-reverie-fan-design-by-meunie-period-belle-epoque.html

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