{"product_id":"cycles-plasson-robbe-1897-art-nouveau","title":"Cycles Plasson 1897 | Manuel Robbe Art Nouveau Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman in brown bloomers and a feathered top hat mounts a red-framed Plasson bicycle, turning toward the viewer with an art nouveau poster confidence that her skirted contemporaries in the background conspicuously lack. Above the scene, a saturated red sky crossed by flat cream cloud forms fills the upper two-thirds of the composition. The address, 37, 39, 41, Rue des Cloÿs, Paris, is set below in a calm mixed typeface, the commercial anchor to Robbe's vivid design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManuel Robbe (1872–1936) trained at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the master etcher Eugène Delâtre, and became one of the leading colour printmakers of the Belle Époque. He produced only a small number of advertising posters; two were for the Plasson bicycle company. This version was one of a companion pair designed to work as a visual sequence, the female cyclist in practical bloomers set against onlookers in conventional dress. The original stone lithograph, printed by Imprimerie Bourgerie \u0026amp; Cie, Paris c.1897, is held in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poster sits at the intersection of Art Nouveau commercial design and the late-1890s cycling craze that swept through Paris, a moment when the bicycle became a genuine vehicle for social change as much as transport. Robbe's wit in staging that change, with a composed central figure and two subtly judgmental bystanders, makes this one of the more pointed social observations in French poster art of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using pigment-based archival inks. Colours are drawn from the restored original stone lithograph palette: cadmium red, cream, olive green, and dark brown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63909621498233,"sku":"VPA-12217-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63909621531001,"sku":"VPA-12217-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63909621563769,"sku":"VPA-12217-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63909621596537,"sku":"VPA-12217-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63909621629305,"sku":"VPA-12217-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63909621662073,"sku":"VPA-12217-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63909621694841,"sku":"VPA-12217-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Sport-Cycling-CyclesPlasson-ManuelRobbe-c1900.jpg?v=1783449313","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/cycles-plasson-robbe-1897-art-nouveau","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}