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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 Masters
Prenez du Cacao Van Houten
Adolphe Willette · Prenez du Cacao Van Houten, 1893
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
An Adolphe Willette lithograph for Van Houten cocoa.
Why it matters
Printed by Belfond; the BnF dates it 1893.
What to notice
Prenez du cacao Van Houten.
For one decade, the street was the gallery.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Adolphe Willette
- Printer / house
- Litho Belfond et Cie, 10 rue Gaillon, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Prenez du Cacao Van Houten, 1893
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, via Gallica and Wikimedia Commons
Live trademark
Van Houten — 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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