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Le Règne de Louis XIV
The Sun King's court reassembled in lithographic colour for a five-minute film.
What
A French affiche for the 1904 Pathé historical short Le Règne de Louis XIV, drawn by the Brazilian-born poster designer Cândido Aragonez de Faria.
Why
Faria ran Pathé's poster atelier through the industry's first decade and effectively set the visual grammar of the film poster: a tableau of the picture's biggest scene, the title in banner script, the brand beneath. Cinema had no advertising language of its own yet, so he borrowed from the music-hall affiche and taught it to sell moving pictures.
Notice
The composition is horizontal, not vertical — Faria staged it like a proscenium, so the eye reads it as a stage set rather than a page.
“The first grammar of film advertising, worked out in a Paris print shop before anyone knew what a film poster was.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Le Règne de Louis XIV (1904)
- Country / studio
- France · Pathé Frères
- Designer
- Cândido Aragonez de Faria
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1904
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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The Double Bill
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