A woman bursts out of the neck of a foaming bottle while a silver cork shoots out of the frame. Jean de Paleologu, a Romanian-born poster artist, signed his work "PAL". He was active in Paris through the 1890s, working across theatre, cycling and consumer-goods advertising, and he left Paris for the United States in 1900.
The bottle's oval label names the product as Orbec Mousseux Ricolet.
On the poster
A blonde figure erupts from the neck of an amber bottle, arms raised and hair flung back, as the cork rockets diagonally out of the frame. "BOCK-ORBEC" arches across the top in bold red slab-serif, and white brush-script to the right reads "Boisson Cazeuse a la Mode" (fashionable fizzy drink). The footer warns "Se Mefier des Imitations" (beware of imitations). The picture is warm amber and orange in its lower two-thirds, cooling to a pale sage-green sky.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

