A Lachelin Advertising Fan for Restaurant Henry, the paper leaf mounted à l'Anglaise on wooden...
A Lachelin Advertising Fan for Restaurant Henry, the paper leaf mounted à l'Anglaise on wooden sticks, showing an elegant lady in 18th robes with engageantes, admiring a fan being proffered by a bewigged young gentleman, to his left a vendor with a tray containing slim boxes, presumably holding fans. The recto features the verse/poem written in 18th century French, "Au milieu des chaleurs extremes, Heureux d'amufer vos loifirs, Je ne veux pres de vous, Je ne veux pres de vous qu'appeler les zéphirs, Les amours y viendront d'eux memes" (Quatrain XVIII), and is further annotated "Simu-Aquarelle Devambez". The verso is printed "Eventail B Lachelin, Paris, 32 Avenue de L'Opera". Together with A 1902 Advertising Fan for the Hotel De Paris - Monte Carlo, Signed L Vallet 1902, further attribution to "Devambez Paris ", the double paper leaf mounted on plain wooden sticks. The recto shows a dining table in an intimate setting within an elegant restaurant, a lady in stylish evening wear from the early 19th century, escorted by a uniformed officer, the waiter showing the couple to their table, oblivious of a rival suitor, also in uniform, approaching from the rear. The verso is plain (2)