Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Masters
Absinthe Robette
Henri Privat-Livemont · Colour lithograph poster, Brussels, 1896, 1896
What it is
Privat-Livemont's 1896 poster is the Belgian answer to Mucha: a robed woman raising the glass, ringed by a decorative aureole and rendered in the artist's signature pale outline that makes the flesh glow against the ground.
Why it matters
The colour lithograph was printed by Goffart in Brussels. It became the most reproduced absinthe image of the era and remains the shorthand picture of the drink's belle-époque cult.
What to notice
A translucent-robed figure lifts a glass of green absinthe inside a halo of curling Art Nouveau line.
For one decade, the street was the gallery.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Henri Privat-Livemont
- Printer / house
- Presses de Goffart, lithographe, Bruxelles
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Colour lithograph poster, Brussels, 1896, 1896
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie · btv1b9016411m
Live trademark
Absinthe Robette — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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