We do not usually look to the last-named painter for elaboration of detail. The folding-fan in the hands of the Spanish lady by Velasquez, ‘La Femme à l’Éventail,’ at Hertford House, would appear to be of leather, judging from the colour and texture, with applied ornaments at regular intervals. This is probably of the scented variety, _peau de senteur_, made both in Italy and Spain at this period.[92] We have already referred to the portrait of the little Infanta Margaretha-Theresia by Velasquez in the Vienna Gallery, in which a closed folding-fan is represented. [Illustration: Rinaldo in the Garden of Armida, French, Louis XV. stick tortoise-shells finely carved, painted & gilt. Miss Moss.] [Illustration: Capture of the Balearic Islands, 1759, Spanish. Mr L. C. R. Messel.] In the Prado at Madrid appear the following portraits:— MENGS. Maria Giuseppa, Archduchess of Austria, a closed folding-fan, jewelled. ” Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, a folding-fan. LOPEZ. Queen Maria Cristina di Borbone, a closed folding-fan. GOYA. Queen Maria Luisa, a closed folding-fan. The interesting fan representing the capture of the Balearic Islands by the Spaniards in 1759 may be taken as of Spanish workmanship. The subject is taken from a painting in the Escurial. The stick is ivory, carved _à jour_ with three cartouches, painted and gilt; in the centre appear figures of commanders on horseback, a march of troops on the one side and warships on the other; the background ‘gold-fish’ inlay. The paper mount is painted in gouache; and on the reverse is a view of a fort. The style of the painting presents similar characteristics to a fan mount in the Schreiber collection, British Museum, in which we are introduced to a ‘Carrousel at Madrid,’ with a large square filled with spectators appearing at the windows of the houses; in the centre of the background is a pavilion with the king and suite, inscribed Carlos III., and a performance of a number of horsemen led by the ‘Duque de Médinacéli,’ the ‘Marques de Tabara,’ and the ‘Marques de Aztorga.’ The leaf, which has been removed from the stick, is of paper, painted in gouache. A fan of this subject appeared in the exhibition of fans at South Kensington in 1870, in the possession of Madame Charles Heine of Paris; the stick of tortoise-shell, carved and gilt.