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Bières de la Meuse, Mucha, 1897

Poppies and barley for a brewery on the Meuse.

What

Alphonse Mucha's 1897 poster for the Bières de la Meuse, printed by F. Champenois in Paris on a sheet 156 by 107 cm.

Why

Mucha crowned the drinker with the crop, barley ears and red poppies from the same field.

Notice

Below her, a small grey vignette shows the brewery buildings, and the poster's lettering curls into the hair.

“Six years after the brewery's plain poster of 1891, the same printer let Mucha make it a goddess.”

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 18x24" cleanly.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Alphonse Mucha
Printer: F. Champenois, Paris
Country: France
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Bières de la Meuse, affiche, 1897
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b9016425n

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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 2026-11-01. Published 1897, before the 1930 cutoff; maker Mucha, Alphonse (1860-1939). Illustrateur; Commons reads Public domain with {{CC-Zero}} {{Cc-zero}} {{Gallica}} {{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 seven 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 gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.