Lot Essay
This meeting took place at Versailles on 22nd February 1787
Details
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)
See illustration
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)
See illustration
Literature
There is an unmounted version printed in black in the Schreiber collection, no.208 [S., F28]