Description
A French brasserie menu-cover design for La Rotonde, pairing two playful vignettes: a Pierrot-like figure startled by a lobster, and a bustling Montparnasse scene beneath the scripted “La Rotonde,” with dancers, artists and a nude studio model.
The copy promotes “Brasserie • Restaurant • Dancing ouvert toute la nuit” (“open all night”), plus “Salon de Société” and “Exposition de Tableaux” (“society lounge” and “exhibition of paintings”), reinforcing La Rotonde’s interwar Left Bank cultural role.
Watercolour-style lithographic artwork signed Fernand Renault, with Keller (Paris) printer line and French registration code; wide margins and crisp typography.
Printers line reads “R.C. Seine 268.436 B” and “Imp. Keller, Paris”
