Details
A fan, the leaf painted with Maria Lezkinska, daughter of King Stanislas of Poland arriving at Versailles to meet Louis XV before their marriage in 1725, the verso with officers outside a walled city, the white metal sticks engraved with animals and pierced with foliage - 10in., French, circa 1740
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Provenance
Faucon, no.2476, 1926. There were said to be two other versions of this fan, one which belonged to M. Anatole France in Paris and another that belonged to Count Paul, member of the Court of Alexander I which failed to sell at Christie's