Pretty c.1900 French Hand Colored Print Leaf, 21.75 cm Fan, Au Cotillon Universel, Paris Napoleon Officer damaging the painting during shipment

damaging the painting during shipment

Layered paint and varnish gives a dimensional and rich surface on the items decorated in this manner

self-enclosing

and there is no identification but speculation that they might well have been from Vienna to Poland

when experiencing this panel

Pretty c.1900 French Hand Colored Print Leaf, 21.75 cm Fan, Au Cotillon Universel, Paris Napoleon Officer damaging the painting during shipmentI have an entire crate of hand fans, antiques ranging from elegant c. 1700s works of art, to pretty ones like this from c. 1900 Paris. Likely a Grand Tour souvenir, this one is in surprisingly fine condition for age, but has a very awkward scotch tape application on the plain backside leaf of paper, which is visible and discolored. Luckily, it has not transferred to the front leaf, which is superb. It's paper, a hand colored printed leaf with a warm