A fan, the leaf painted with the triumphal arrival of Alexander at Babylon after Le Brun, the verso painted with a lady and gentleman and with butterflies, with ivory sticks, the guardsticks cloute with mother of pearl and tortoiseshell, both natural and stained to simulate marble and pique with silver - 11in., circa 1700

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A fan, the leaf painted with the triumphal arrival of Alexander at Babylon after Le Brun, the verso painted with a lady and gentleman and with butterflies, with ivory sticks, the guardsticks cloute with mother of pearl and tortoiseshell, both natural and stained to simulate marble and pique with silver - 11in., circa 1700

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The painting from which the fan derives by Charles Le Brun dates from 1665 and is in the musee du Louvre, Paris

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