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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
Cycles Gladiator, 46 rue Lafayette (1900)
Unidentified (BnF: non identifié) · Cycles Gladiator, 1900
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 Cycles Gladiator, manufacture française, 46 rue Lafayette, Paris. The BnF dates it 1900 and records the printer as V. Palyart et fils; the designer is unidentified.
Why it matters
The firm put its Paris address into the lettering of each campaign, so the sheets date themselves by the showroom they served.
What to notice
"Manufacture française" is set in the lettering, a claim of national make in a trade full of British imports.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Unidentified (BnF: non identifié)
- Printer / house
- V. Palyart & fils, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Cycles Gladiator, 1900
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b9013813w
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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