Abatilles water came from a spring found in 1923. By 1926 it had an angel. Leonetto Cappiello (1875 to 1942) designed the poster in 1926 for the bottling company set up at Arcachon the year before. The spring had been discovered on the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux. Imprimerie Devambez of Paris printed it, and it is catalogued as Cappiello/Rennert 430.
It is one of Cappiello's black-ground designs.
On the poster
A white-winged angel rises from a burst of radiant light against an unbroken black-ground, her robes shaded in pearl-grey, one arm raised to cradle a tall glass bottle of Abatilles mineral water. The bottle carries a blue spring label. Red-orange text in the upper corners lists the spring's claimed benefits for the liver, stomach, kidneys and intestines. A rounded blue-bordered panel at the base carries "ABATILLES" in large white display type above the tagline "La plus pure des eaux de table." (The purest of table waters).
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

