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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Velocipede
Clément, Société des Vélocipèdes (Pal, 1894)
Pal (Jean de Paléologue) · Société des vélocipèdes Clément, 1894
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph for the Société des vélocipèdes Clément by Pal, dated 1894, catalogued by the BnF as a printing variant and printed by P. Dupont, Paris.
Why it matters
Pal drew a run of posters for Adolphe Clément's cycle firm on the Dupont presses through the 1890s; four of them are in this group.
What to notice
The BnF holds this as a variante de tirage, the same design pulled in a second printing.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Pal (Jean de Paléologue)
- Printer / house
- P. Dupont, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Société des vélocipèdes Clément, 1894
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b90164247
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 2026-11-01.
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