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Absinthe Robette, 1896
The green fairy raises the glass to the light.
What
A woman raises the louched glass to the light as if it held the hour itself — the most beautiful poster the green fairy ever got.
Why
Within twenty years the bans of the 1910s erased absinthe and every mark that sold it; the category survives only as art. Everything in this collection is a ghost.
Notice
The vapor haloing the glass; the halo repeating in her hair — Livemont letting the drink and the drinker share one aura.
“The bar closed. The art stayed open.”
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
- Henri Privat-Livemont
- Printer
- Presses of J. L. Goffart, Bruxelles
- Country
- Belgium
- Format
- Poster (affiche)
- Piece published
- Absinthe Robette, advertising poster for the Robette distillery, Brussels, 1896
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LC-DIG-ppmsca-10090
Scan: Scan hosted on Wikimedia Commons, mirroring the Library of Congress digital file.
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.
Robette was extinguished by the absinthe bans of the 1910s. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.
From The Green Hour
The Lost — mark extinguishedAbsinthe Extra-Supérieure, 1900
Leonetto Cappiello · 1900
The Lost — mark extinguishedL'Absinthe Cusenier Oxygénée, 1896
Francisco Tamagno (attributed) · 1896
The Lost — mark extinguishedAbsinthe Terminus, 1896
Francisco Tamagno (attributed) · 1896
The Lost — mark extinguishedAbsinthe Rivoire, 1905
Marcellin Auzolle · 1905
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