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L'Absinthe Cusenier Oxygénée, 1896

A café table, an actor's toast, a "healthful" glass of ruin.

What

The stage actor Albert Brasseur raises a glass with a woman at a café table — a "healthful," oxygenated absinthe pitched on the same tonic-water logic every other absinthe house was using by the 1890s.

Why

Belgium banned absinthe in 1905, years ahead of France; this line and the house that sold it went with it.

Notice

The theatrical endorsement — a real actor's face selling the glass, a full decade before the modern celebrity-endorsement ad existed as a category.

“The health claim didn't save it. Nothing did.”

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Francisco Tamagno (attributed)
Country: Belgium
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: L'Absinthe Cusenier oxygénée, C'est ma santé — advertising poster, 1896
Source: Wikimedia Commons (Brussels poster collection)

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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16. Artist attribution to Tamagno is a dealer/secondary-source convention, not a signed or catalogued certainty — described here as "attributed," not asserted as fact. Does not affect the PD status, which rests on publication year alone.

Cusenier was extinguished by the absinthe bans of the 1910s. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.