L'Assemblee de Notables

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L'Assemblee de Notables
a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching printed in brown with Louis XVI, his two brothers, four gentlemen and four clergymen, and a satirical verse set to the music of Air de Figaro, with wooden sticks, with bone filets - 10in. (26cm.), 1787 (lacks half rivet)
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Literature
There is an unmounted version printed in black in the Schreiber collection, no.208 [S., F28]

Lot Essay

This meeting took place at Versailles on 22nd February 1787

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