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Cognac Jules Bellot, 1899

A dancer beside a bottle as tall as she is.

What

A poster for the cognac of Jules Bellot of Cognac, 1899; the BnF lists the maker as unidentified.

Why

The bottle and the woman are drawn at the same height, and she raises a glass of it in her right hand.

Notice

She wears a red and pink dress with a lace petticoat, and the background is a plain sunny yellow.

“A small cognac house with a large bottle.”

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

Country: France
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Cognac Jules Bellot à Cognac..., affiche, 1899
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b6909404p

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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 1899, 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). 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.