Queen of the Night – (Gustave-Francois Lasellaz) Previous Next


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Date: 1892

Museum: The Fan Museum (Greenwich, United Kingdom)

Technique: Silver

Fan with carved and pierced tortoiseshell sticks shaped to simulate rays of light. One guard is richly carved with a female crowned with a diamond-set silver star. The double canepin leaf is painted on the recto only with a nymph-like female figure, accompanied by putti; Signed G. Lasellaz.The rivet is capped by a jewelled star of silver with rose diamonds.Lasellaz, Gustave-François (French, 1848-1910) Genre and landscape painter, known to have exhibited works at the Paris Salon from 1883. He painted fans for Maison Duvelleroy as well as for Kees.

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