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France-Champagne (E. Debray), 1891

The poster that launched Bonnard — for a champagne house that no longer exists.

What

Pierre Bonnard's breakthrough 1891 poster for E. Debray's 'France-Champagne': a woman in evening dress, a foaming glass, the bubbles filling the foreground.

Why

E. Debray's France-Champagne house, near Reims, is documented only in 1890s poster text and museum catalogs — absent from every modern champagne registry. The house is gone.

Notice

Its place in art history — this poster launched Bonnard's career, helped push Toulouse-Lautrec toward lithographic posters, and is cited as a founding work of the modern art poster.

“The poster that started an art form outlived the house that paid for it by more than a century.”

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 11x17" cleanly.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Printer: Édouard Ancourt, Paris
Country: France
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: France-Champagne (E. Debray) — advertising poster, 1891
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Scan: Public-domain reproduction (PD-Mark), hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Attribute Pierre Bonnard.

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 2026-07-18. Published 1891 (PD-pre1931 in US); Bonnard d. 1947, life+70 expired 2018. Commons PD-Mark. Attribute Bonnard.

France-Champagne (E. Debray) was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.