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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
Pièces Détachées et Cycles Brillant (Tournon, 1901)
Raymond Tournon · Cycles Brillant, 1901
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 Raymond Tournon for Pièces détachées et Cycles Brillant, lettered with the silver medal won at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The BnF records this printing variant at 149 x 110 cm, printed by Paul Dupont, Paris, and dates it 1901.
Why it matters
A medal from the 1900 fair was worth printing on the next campaign, and Brillant printed it.
What to notice
"Médaille d'argent" in the lettering dates the sheet to the months after the fair.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Raymond Tournon
- Printer / house
- Imprimerie Paul Dupont, 4 rue du Bouloi, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Cycles Brillant, 1901
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
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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