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Ambassadeurs, L'Avaleur de Sabres, Chéret, 1876
A sword swallower takes the blade at the café-concert.
What
Jules Chéret's poster for the sword swallower at the Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs, Champs-Élysées, printed at Chéret's own press in 1876; the BnF sheet measures 80 by 60 cm; Broido 186.
Why
The Ambassadeurs mixed singers with circus turns, and the sword swallower was billed in letters as big as his blade.
Notice
He wears a scale shirt and a red kilt, one sword in his mouth and another in his hand.
“An evening out on the Champs-Élysées, from sword to song.”
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
- Jules Chéret
- Printer
- Imprimerie J. Chéret, Paris
- Country
- France
- Format
- Poster (affiche)
- Piece published
- Café-concert des Ambassadeurs. L'Avaleur de sabres affiche, Jules Chéret, affiche, 1876
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b90128429
Scan: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica; public domain. 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 2026-11-02. Published 1876, before the 1930 cutoff; maker Jules Chéret; Commons reads Public domain with {{CC-Zero}} {{Cc-zero}} {{Gallica}} {{PD-Layout}} {{PD-US}} {{SDC-PD-US}}. BnF Gallica scan: BnF asks for a licence for commercial reuse of its reproductions; flag for legal sign-off (the house already sells Gallica scans). Mark status dead is the registrar's reading of an old mark; no trademark search was run, so confirm before launch.
This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.
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