Le Comte et la Comtesse de Cagliostro, a fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etched of two scenes from the life of the 'Count' and portraits of the couple, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), French, 1785 (leaf worn and one stick broken )

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Le Comte et la Comtesse de Cagliostro, a fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etched of two scenes from the life of the 'Count' and portraits of the couple, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), French, 1785 (leaf worn and one stick broken )
See Illustration Plate C

Provenance

Possibly Duchet with manuscript no.148

Lot Essay

This celebrated charlatan was in reality Guiseppe Balsamo (1743-1795). After being involved in the affair of the Diamond Necklace, he retired to England between 1786 and 1788. He married Lorenza Seraphina Felichiani in 1769 when she was 15.
Another example of this fan from the Duchet collection no. 150 was sold at Christie's South Kensington lot 137, 26 May 1981.

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