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Lot no. 87
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Paul Hervy, Le Groseillier à fleurs, for Félix Alexandre, France, circa 1870
Folded fan, double sheet of cream silk painted with branches of flowering gooseberry called "cassis-fleur".
Signed "Hervy" in blue on the right and "Alexandre" on the left.
The painter Paul Hervy worked regularly for the fan-maker Alexandre. He exhibited at the 1845 and 1848 Salons.
Read H. Alexander, "Alexandre, Fan-maker to the Courts of Europe", Greenwich, The Fan Museum, 2012, pp.45-48.
Mute reverse.
Mother-of-pearl burgau mounting without decoration.
Accompanied by a handwritten card stating "Fan of the great singer Hortense Schneider", and tapuscript "Fan having belonged to 'La Soubise', great courtesan of the 3rd Empire (sic)". A very famous singer of the Second Empire, Hortense Schneider (1833-1920) was also a great benefactor of the Orphelinat des Arts.
Height 28.3 cm / H.f. 14.7 cm
(stains, cuts and rest. on reverse)
In an Alexandre box, covered with purple satin.
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