A hand-coloured lithographic fan of a bullfighting scene, the verso inscribed in manuscript 'ojitos color de cielo enseñados a vivir galanes para todos y tiranos para mi', signed Eugenie, Souvenir de St. Sebastien, 17 September 1857, with wooden sticks - 11.5in., 1857 (lacks screw to the pin)

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A hand-coloured lithographic fan of a bullfighting scene, the verso inscribed in manuscript 'ojitos color de cielo enseñados a vivir galanes para todos y tiranos para mi', signed Eugenie, Souvenir de St. Sebastien, 17 September 1857, with wooden sticks - 11.5in., 1857 (lacks screw to the pin)

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Eugenia María de Montijo (1826 - 1920) married Napoleon III in 1853. The square wooden bullring at San Sabastian was called San Martin and is illustrated on the fan. It was fashionable to go to San Sebastian and Biarritz at that time.

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