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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
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
Automobile race fan for Romano’s. Wooden sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed with a racing car. ca. 1920. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3918-automobile-race-fan-for-romano-s-circa-1910.html
Beach pleasures and sailing fan. Wooden sticks and guards, the printed paper leaf with a drawn view of the Eden-Casino in Trouville, France facing the beach, where onlookers enjoy the pleasures of the sea and sailboats. On the reverse is another advertisement for the Eden Casino, which hosts Folies-Bergère shows. Late 19th c. Inscribed Eventail Lemariey and Lithograher, F. Appel. Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3913-beach-pleasures-and-sailing-late-19th-century-fan.html
Cycling in and around Paris hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with a map of the Bois de Boulogne framed by views of Bagatelle and the Louvre On the reverse are two other maps showing the Paris area and a plan of the city. The guards are inscribed Bois de Boulogne Paris et des environs and Léon Pouillot Ft Eventail cycliste. ca. 1898. Léon Pouillot, maker. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3894-faire-du-velo-a-paris-et-ses-environs-eventail-cycliste-vers.html
Mercedes and the French Grand Prix motor race motif hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed with an automobile race design and inscribed Mercédès 1908 Francolin. Gilet & Cie. Eventaillistes. Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3919-mercedes-car-race-fan-from-1908.html
Sailing in Normandy hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with the skin painted with a coastline, perhaps Norman, at the end of the summer with a sailboat sailing in front of the pier. ca. 1880. Signed by the painter Georges Gassies. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fans-by-painter-artist/3923-sailing-in-normandy-fan-by-georges-gassies-circa-1880.html
Tennis and bicycling theme fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the skin leaf painted in the motif of a castle park where a game of doubles tennis is being played, while a couple rides their bicycles. Signed and dated G. Gaston) de Lauverjat 25 mai 1897. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3904-tennis-and-bicycle-fan-by-gaston-de-lauverjat-1897.html
Advertising fan for the Durand restaurant. Wooden sticks and guards, the leaf printed in the motif of an elegant Belle Epoque lady and her dog attending a speedboat race. Signed by George De Feure and published by Société Nouvelle d’Art et Décoration 104, boulevard de Clichy, Paris. ca. 1910. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3891-wate-sport-motorboats-fan-circa-1910.html
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