Lot Essay
There is an example of this fan in the Musee Carnavalet, Exhibited Eventails Actualites - Vie Parisienne - Mai - Octobre 1973, no. 280
Details
Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889, a chromolithographic fan by Barbier, 11 rue Meslay advertising Siraudin, confiseur, depicting a crowded scene outside the Opera and Siraudin's shop with celebrities of the day including Victor Hugo, with wooden sticks - 13in. (32cm.), 1889
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