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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 Peugeot, Valentigney (Vulliemin, 1895)
Ernest Vulliemin · Cycles Peugeot, 1895
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 by Ernest Vulliemin for Cycles Peugeot, Valentigney (Doubs), dated 1895 and printed by Lemercier in Paris. The BnF holds it as a variant of lettering and printer.
Why it matters
Peugeot made bicycles in the Doubs alongside its tools and mills, and its posters named the home works.
What to notice
Valentigney, Doubs, is set under the name: a provincial works selling to Paris.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Ernest Vulliemin
- Printer / house
- Imprimeries Lemercier, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Cycles Peugeot, 1895
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b53235706r
Live trademark
Peugeot — 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 2026-11-01.
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