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Absinthe Extra-Supérieure, 1900
Cappiello's early absinthe hand, four years before the devil.
What
A poster for J. Édouard Pernot's absinthe extra-supérieure — Leonetto Cappiello working the same green hour that would make him famous a few years later, in Paris.
Why
One of a run of absinthe commissions Cappiello painted between 1900 and 1914, before the bans closed the category he had helped sell. The house he was building his style in no longer exists to hire him.
Notice
Cappiello's flat, saturated color fields and single dramatic figure — the vocabulary he would perfect on Maurin Quina, already forming here.
“The style outlived the spirit.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.
Size
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Provenance
The Lost — mark extinguished- Artist
- Leonetto Cappiello
- Country
- France
- Format
- Poster (affiche)
- Piece published
- Absinthe extra-supérieure J. Édouard Pernot, advertising poster, 1900
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · Gallica btv1b9014990b
Scan: Bibliothèque nationale de France, via Gallica, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
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.
J. Édouard Pernot was extinguished by the absinthe bans of the 1910s. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.
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The Lost — mark extinguishedAbsinthe Rivoire, 1905
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The Back Bar: Belle Époque
Three ghosts from the same twenty years — Robette, Pernot, and the devil of Maurin Quina. Hung together, they are the Green Hour's whole argument in one wall.
See the set in The Green Hour →A house of the Provenance family