Details
An Assignat fan, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of assignats, coins and documents against a green ground, the verso with a vignette of Jean qui pleu and Jean qui rit, with wooden sticks - 9½in., French, circa 1795
Provenance
Faucon, 1929
Literature
There is a version of this fan in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, exhibited Eventails, May - October 1973 no. 175 and reproduced De Perthuis and Meylan, Eventails, pp. 92 - 3, Paris 1989