These evocative vintage Absinthe advertising posters reflect the fascinating history of Absinthe.

No other drink has the same romantic history - the French Impressionists....Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, Van Gogh....Paris in the Belle Epoque....the cafes of Montmartre....the muse of writers from Verlaine and Rimbaud to Joyce and Hemingway. Of course, there's a darker side to absinthe as well - no other drink has ever roused the same degree of passionate condemnation, and no other drink has ever been banned outright in the way Absinthe was in the years leading up to 1915.  These diverse views of Absinthe are reflected here in these evocative advertising posters and propaganda posters. 

The height of the Absinthe boom in the late 19th century, coincided with the rise of the large lithographic advertising poster as a powerful commercial and artistic medium - pioneered by the work of Jules Chéret. Many of the greatest poster artists of the period - Cappiello, Privat-Livemont, Lefevre, Tamagno - created famous images to advertise the Absinthe grand marques.

These beautiful vintage posters bring back to life Paris in the 1900's - the Belle Epoch - the bistro and café life, the Moulin Rouge and Montmartre; the art nouveau - impressionism, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Monet, Manet, Picasso, Braque; the writers of the day - Verlaine, Rimbaud, Hemingway, Oscar Wilde; and the social issues of the day - French politics, movement, prohibition, alcoholism and anti-alcoholism, eugenics, drugs and drug-abuse. All are reflected in these images.

These digital images have been scanned from the original Absinthe Posters in ultra-high resolutions and are reprinted for you on-demand at 1440 dots per inch to produce beautiful Absinthe Poster prints.

For further information about the history of Absinthe and purchasing the liqueur please visit the Virtual Absinthe Museum at www.oxygenee.com.  Click here for information about Printree (the operator of this print site).