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[French perfumes advertisements, with Art Nouveau illus: Parfums Ramses"]" – Historic Print

[French perfumes advertisements, with Art Nouveau illus: Parfums Ramses"]", 1919 Aug. — historic photograph
[French perfumes advertisements, with Art Nouveau illus: Parfums Ramses"]", 1919 Aug.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [French perfumes advertisements, with Art Nouveau illus: Parfums Ramses"]", preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Sinuous linework and stylized floral forms set this advertisement for Parfums Ramses apart from the text-heavy perfume ads of its day. Dated August 1919, it was reproduced as a halftone in the French periodical *Feuillets d'Art*. Art Nouveau, which flourished around 1900, still shaped commercial illustration after the First World War, and perfume makers used its decorative language to suggest luxury and refinement. The record comes from an unverified caption card, so details about the artist and original publication context remain uncertain.

Created / published1919 Aug.
Medium1 photographic print : halftone.
NotesIllus. in: Feuillets d'Art. No ref. copies. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Advert.; Perfume; Art Nouveau; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152072

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