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Bonne double bierre
1828ref. 5945París France: Paulot & Carré 1828. Wallpaper broadside 45 x 51 cm. with seven-color woodcut black orange green blue white gray and brown. Printed on a brown paper coated with a pale blue pigment. The text states "Bonne double bierre" and the scene depicts four soldiers in uniform being waited on by a woman. She pours a seated soldier a drink while another stands with his hand draped around her shoulder. Two more soldiers share a smoke appearing to have had a few drinks already. Only the woman is clearly not enjoying herself. There are no identifying marks or labels on the broadside or on the matte but the stated publisher and date and the attribution to the printers Paulot & Carré are inferred by comparison with a print of the same series in the collection of the Museé du Papier Peint in Rexheim France. That print with the same text background color print colors and rough size depicts two women and a child seated under an arbor with a military officer enjoying a drink. Two exhibitions at Rixheim included that print; three similar prints were included in the groundbreaking exhibition by wallpaper collector and manufacturer Félix Follot Papiers peints à l'exposition universelle internationales de 1900 à Paris. Three similar prints were shown at the Exposition notice 156 "Deux affiches illustrées imprimées chez Paulot et Carré 1828-1830 Bière Cidre" and notice 158 "Affiche illustrée 'Bonne double bierre'" 1828. The two scenes described here were issued interchangeably with a number of texts including "Bonne Double Bierre" "Petite Biere" "Biere Cidre" and "Eau de Vie de Cognac". Unevenly cut with wide margins; affixed to modern matte with two small cloth hinges; one small cloth repair to verso. Some rubbing to surface of print and a bit of color loss to the face of one character and general light creasing. Still near very good. Rare. Félix Follot. Papiers peints à l'exposition universelle internationales de 1900 à Paris. Saint-Cloud: Imp. Belin Frères 1900 no. 156 & 158 prints from the same series; Françoise Teynac Pierre Nolot Jean-Denis Vivien. Le Monde du Papier Peint. Paris Berger-Levrault 1981 page 137; Sotheby. Papiers peints anciens collection de la maison Follot catalogue de vente 7 et 8 février 1982. Monte-Carlo: Sotheby 1982 no. 12. Paulot & Carré hardcover
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