Bicycles
by G. Berni
Cycles Mercier
1900 French Woman carrying a weightless A. Mercier Bicycle.A young lady makes the Mercier cycle she hoists in her hand seem as light as the butterfly she balances on her right. Of course, given her getup--outlandish even by bicycle standards: feathered boater hat, bare bosom, broadly tiger-striped skirt, argyle socks--one might easily overlook the bicycle altogether: but not the poster. Little is know of this artist; there are only two of his posters in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, of which, this is not one.