Lot 73
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A fine fan signed Eduard Moreau, dated 1865, the leaf painted with a 16th century skating scene with elegant figures in a sledge and two smaller vignettes of guests arriving at a banquet with a musician and a banquet with a noblewoman holding a crown, the ivory sticks painted en grisaille with four vignettes of love and marriage in 18th century costume, two signed Ed. Moreau, the guardsticks carved in high relief with dolphins and masks - 12in.(30cm.), French, 1865 - in later box by Duvelleroy , 11 Boulevard de la Madeleine
A fine fan signed Eduard Moreau, dated 1865, the leaf painted with a 16th century skating scene with elegant figures in a sledge and two smaller vignettes of guests arriving at a banquet with a musician and a banquet with a noblewoman holding a crown, the ivory sticks painted en grisaille with four vignettes of love and marriage in 18th century costume, two signed Ed. Moreau, the guardsticks carved in high relief with dolphins and masks - 12in.(30cm.), French, 1865 - in later box by Duvelleroy , 11 Boulevard de la Madeleine

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A fine fan signed Eduard Moreau, dated 1865, the leaf painted with a 16th century skating scene with elegant figures in a sledge and two smaller vignettes of guests arriving at a banquet with a musician and a banquet with a noblewoman holding a crown, the ivory sticks painted en grisaille with four vignettes of love and marriage in 18th century costume, two signed Ed. Moreau, the guardsticks carved in high relief with dolphins and masks - 12in.(30cm.), French, 1865 - in later box by Duvelleroy , 11 Boulevard de la Madeleine
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Probably by Alexandre. Fans of similar layout signed Alexandre are known, including one exhibited in the Karlsruhe Exhibition, 1891. plate 26 and another sold at Sotheby's in 1981.

Edouard Jean Baptiste Moreau (1825-1878), exhibited at the Salon between 1848 and 1875. He painted in gouache and miniatures on vellum, specialising in historic subjects. A fan by him, Un tournoi au Moyen Age, sold in the Alexandre sale, 1875 for 405fr.

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