Woman With A Fan, c1879. The actress Jeanne Samary may have posed for this painting in her cheerfully decorated dressing room at the Comédie-Française, a theater in holds an uchiwa fan, reflecting a fascination with all things Japanese in late nineteenth-century France.

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Size: 4619px × 5476px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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