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

Don’t get another air conditioner. Make your own (and prettier) breeze with these, antique hand fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Cabaret du Rat Mort at Pigalle Hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with printed paper leaves printed with reproductions of 18th century paintings. ca. 1900-1920. Published by Chambrelent. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3986-cabaret-du-rat-mort-eventail-vers-1900-1920.html

Ecole militaire de Saint-Cyr, Premier Bataillon de France hand-fan.
Wooden fan, the paper leaf printed in blue with the students and teachers of the Saint-Cyr military school, with the sun rising over the institution in the background and inscribed “Premier bataillon de France”. ca. 1899. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3979-ecole-militaire-de-saint-cyr-premier-bataillon-de-france-fan-circa-1899.html

Large hand-fan, the silk leaf embroidered with sequins and painted with colorful dahlias and two portraits, possibly Vigée-Lebrun’s renditions of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Yellow-green tinted mother of pearl sticks and guards. Late 19th c. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Maker’s marks: sepia stamp of the fan-maker Duvelleroy on the reverse. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3984-duvelleroy-celebrates-queen-marie-antoinette-fan-circa-1900.html

Two advertising fans for Paul Poiret’s Rosine perfumes. “Les Parfums de Rosine, Paris.” Wooden sticks and guards Wooden sticks and guards. The leaves are made of illustrated printed paper, decorated with flowers after designs by Ateliers Martine, and on the reverse are the names of the perfumes created by Paul Poiret with a label indicating the fragrance used to perfume the fan. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3972-parfums-de-rosine-paris-perfumed-fans-by-paul-poiret-art-deco-period.html

Hand-fan with wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf engraved with a song and three monuments to the glory of Napoleon: the Obélisque de la Concorde (brought back from Luxor in 1836 and recalling the Emperor’s campaigns in Egypt), the Arc de Triomphe (designed and built from 1806-1836), the Colonne Vendome (erected from 1806-1810). ca 1830-1840. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4002-paris-in-the-glory-of-napoleon-fan-circa-1830-40.html

Souvenir of the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Hand-fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards applied with gold leaves and a chromolithographed paper leaf. Signed , dated and inscribed J. Hervy 1854 and Alexandre Boul. Montmartre n°6 Exposition 1855. Hervy and Alexandre, makers. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3968-souvenir-de-l-exposition-universelle-de-1855-eventail-d-apres-hervy-pour-alexandre.html

Hand-fans with flowers for August. Who needs an air conditioner if you can make your own breeze?

Iris hand-fan in wood with a painted fabric leaf. 1900-1905. Tutin, maker. Signed Tutin. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3605-iris-by-tutin-fan-circa-1900-1905.html

Iris flower hand-fan, the polylobed leaf applied with three lace irises and embroidered with sequins. Tortoiseshell sticks and guards inlaid with silver sequins and the top of the guards being serpentine. ca. 1900-1910. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Signed Duvelleroy on the reverse. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3603-iris-flowers-duvelleroy-fan-circa-1900-1910.html

Hand-fan with a painted silk and gauze leaf, richly embroidered with colored sequins depicting poppy flowers. Pierced horn sticks and guards, engraved and applied with tinted burgau mother-of-pearl with a poppy motif. Art Nouveau. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3606-poppies-art-nouveau-fan.html

Hand-fans from Fans d’Eventail, Paris. All beautiful. Taken from their September email.

Bees and thistles fan. Fabric leaf painted with bees foraging on thistles and bone sticks and guards carved and painted with thistles. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3056-bees-and-thistles-fan-circa-1900.html

Bird and grappes fan. Painted and embroidered gauze leaf and horn sticks and guards applied with colored mother-of-pearl. ca. 1900. Art Nouveau. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Signed “Duvelleroy” on the back. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3052-bird-and-grappes-duvelelroy-fan-circa-1900.html

Himalayan monal feather fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards. Late 19th c. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/3055-himalayan-monal-late-19th-century.html

Fans to make your own breeze, whenever summer comes back. All of these being recent offerings from Fans d’Eventails of Paris.

Balloon-shaped fan with a two-register cabriolet leaf in the original box. Central silk cartel painted with a gallant scene at the castle of cards signed “J.E. Baguès“. Made of silk and fishnet painted and embroidered with golden sequins and pierced and painted horn or imitation horn sticks and guards. ca. 1900. Box imprinted on the interior in gold “Ernest Kees, fabrique d’eventails, Paris.” Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/2951-cabriolet-and-card-castle-fan-by-kees-circa-1900.html

Calypso and Ulysse fan. Painted paper leaf. Ivory sticks and guards, the guards having applied tortoiseshell and mother of pearl. ca. 1720-1730. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/2957-calypso-and-ulysse-fan-circa-1720-30.html

Note: This fan has ivory sticks and guards but is 200 years old so I am using it here. I would not if it was later in date. Should my using it bothers you please don’t look. Thank you!

Balloon-shaped fan, the black gauze leaf painted with the flower market on the place de Madeleine in Paris with two very Parisian cats being courted by suitably dressed up gallants under the amused eyes of the flower sellers, while the wife of one of the courtiers is stunned and ready for scandal. ca. 1900-1910. Black gauze leaf with tortoiseshell sticks, inlaid with steel sequins and serpentine guards. Signed “Duvelleroy” on the reverse Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/2950-cats-at-the-flower-market-fan-circa-1900-1910.html

Three-lobed silk fan painted with an elegant woman with pearls. Embroidered with sequins. Semi-sultane sticks and guards in a synthetic material that imitates tortoiseshell. ca. 1900-1920. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/2952-elegant-with-pearls-fan-circa-1900-1920.html

Hand-fans with painted scenes, one with horses and a dog. Twentieth century. All from the website of Fans d’Eventail, Paris.

Pastiche fan decorated with a blind man’s bluff scene. Painted skin leaf with ivory sticks and guards painted and varnished in the taste of the 18th century in the style of vernis Martin. ca. 1900. French. Lancret, maker. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2890-blind-man-s-buff-by-lancret-pastiche-fan-circa-1900.html

“Cnarming Moments” fan. Finely painted skin leaf with mother of pearl sticks and guards, carved and decorated with gold foils, burgau and green stones. ca. 1900. French. Jules Donzel, painter (1865-1927). Signed by the painter. Duvellroy, maker. Maker’s mark for Duvellroy on the reverse. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2891-charming-moments-fan-by-donzel-circa-1900.html

Fan with a silk leaf painted with a dog and horses with mother of pearl sticks and guards. ca. 1920. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/2889-dog-and-horses-fan-circa-1900.html

More promotional Fans (eventail) advertising various French alcoholic beverages. All fun with great artwork. From the website of Coutau-Bégarie in Paris.

Dubonnet fan with a double sheet of printed paper with identical decoration on both sides and a wooden frame. after Cassandre. ca. 1932. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie, Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425717?npp=100&sort=1&

“Champagne de Castellane” fan, double sheet of paper printed in the style of Alphonse Mucha with a wooden frame. ca. 1900. Duvelleroy Paris Fans, maker. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie, Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425718?npp=100&sort=1&

Champagne Marceaux fan with double sheets of paper printed after L. Bonnotte showing a policeman watching the wind lift the skirts of an elegant woman with the Sacré-Cœur and the Butte Montmartre in the background and a wooden frame. 1921. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie, Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425719?npp=100&sort=1&

“Le pesage d’Auteuil d’après Sem” fan with a double sheet of printed paper and a wooden frame. Vintage. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie, Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425720?npp=100&sort=1&

Feathery fans to wave around and make everyone sneeze. Eventail Duvelleroy, Paris. An old firm that got a recent reboot. All of these from their website which you can find at eventail-duvelleroy.fr.

Eventail_Autruche_Pourpre-1024x768 — Burgundy ostrich and ebony hand-fan. Contemporary. Handmade in France. Ostrich feathers with an ebony frame. Image © Eventail Duvelleroy. Fair use license. via https://eventail-duvelleroy.fr/en/fans/eventail-autruche-pourpre-ebene

Screenshot (487) — Blue and silver pamille cabriolet hand-fan. Contemporary. Hand made in France. Rooster feathers and silk with an ebony frame. Image © Eventail Duvelleroy. Fair use license. via

Triple-paon-nouvelle-échelle-2-e1551292362599-1024x768 — Triple peacock hand-fan. Contemporary. Handmade in France. Peacock feathers with a mother-of-pearl frame. Image © Eventail Duvelleroy. Fair use license. via https://eventail-duvelleroy.fr/en/fans/eventail-triple-paon

Screenshot (486) — Nude ostrich and ebony hand-fan. Contemporary. Handmade in France. Ostrich feathers with an ebony frame. Image © Eventail Duvelleroy. Fair use license. via https://eventail-duvelleroy.fr/en/fans/eventail-autruche-rose-poudre-ebene

I’m no expert but they collect the feathers when the birds molt. As far as I know all birds molt. In any case, the feathers would have to be sustainably sourced as there is essentially no market for anything new with feathers that someone went out and shot a bird to get so nobody would bother to make anything from them as you can’t sell them.

Hand fans to cool off with. So much prettier than air conditioning. French and all by Eventail Duvelleroy, Paris. An old firm that got a recent reboot. All these fans made afterward.

Apricot petal fan. Contemporary. — Apricot petal fan. Contemporary. Metallic apricot silk leaf with organza petals that open and close. Image © 2019 La Perfection Louis. Fair use license. via https://www.laperfectionlouis.com/products/luxury-hand-fan-apricot-petals

Fan with cream blue and gold tiles design and wooden sticks. Undated. — Fan with cream blue and gold tiles design and wooden sticks. Undated.© 2019 The Fan Museum. Fair use license. via https://www.thefanmuseum.org.uk/shop/duvelleroy-tiles-gold-fan

Parrot fan. ca. 2015. — Parrot fan. ca. 2015. Created by Coralie Marabelle, it won a public award at the Hyères festival in 2015. Image © 2019 The Fan Museum. Fair use license. via https://www.thefanmuseum.org.uk/shop/duvelleroy-parrot-fan

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