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Amer Picon, Absinthe Joanne, Chocolat Menier, 1889

A Paris advertising column, with a mother and child passing.

What

A poster of 1889 showing a Paris advertising column papered for Amer Picon, Absinthe Joanne of 55 quai de la Tournelle, and Chocolat Menier.

Why

Three brands share one column, and the poster shows the street that would have read it.

Notice

A woman in yellow with a black boa walks past with a small girl in red carrying a doll, and the Joanne bottle sits inside a gold medal wreath.

“The poster about posters: the Paris street, ad by ad.”

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

Live mark — art history only

Country: France
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Amer Picon, affiche, 1889
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b90118012

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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 1889, before the 1930 cutoff; maker unidentified; Commons reads Public domain with {{PD-France}} {{PD-Layout}} {{PD-US-expired}} {{PD-US-expired-text}} {{PD-old-assumed}} {{PD-old-assumed-text}} {{PD-old-assumed/core}} {{PD-old-warning-text}} {{SDC-PD-US}} {{SDC-PD-old}}. 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). Live mark (Picon), flagged in drink.markStatus; nominative title only.

Picon is a live mark, still on shelves today. This piece is sold strictly as art history — not as marketing, endorsement, or affiliation.