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Folding fan, the leaf painted with characters representing some of the minor trades typically associated with the underclass in eighteenth-century Paris. The petits métier and cris de Paris – street hawkers, who used distinctive ‘cries’ to draw attention to their offers – peddled everything from foodstuffs to toy windmills and handheld fans. Among others depicted on the fan are a milkmaid, broom seller and knife grinder.

The Fan Museum

London

Title

Les petits métiers (Minor Trades)

Date

c.1770

Medium

ivory & gouache on paper

Measurements

H 26.5 x W (?) cm

Accession number

HA2017

Acquisition method

purchased privately by the owner, Mrs H. E. Alexander

Work type

Watercolour

The Fan Museum

12 Crooms Hill, London, Greater London SE10 8ER England

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