Bodybuilding/Wrestling. Exceptional original poster: "Sandow - Lot 53

Bodybuilding/Wrestling. Exceptional original poster: "Sandow's own Combined Developer....Agent général Veuve Laurent, 58 bd Sébastopol...". By L.Lucien Faure (1872-1906)...Physical exercise, under the influence of Messrs. Desbonnet, Paz and Hébert, was very much in vogue in the Belle Epoque, with the body being rediscovered, and Baron de Coubertin was no stranger to this recognition either...Which brings us this masterpiece promoting a Sandow muscle-building machine. It bears the name of its inventor, the eclectic German athlete (1867-1925), who gives a spectacular demonstration before our very eyes: naked, muscular, with a small dumbbell in his left hand and an extensor in his right, he's a real eye-catcher, and leaves the pipsqueak, who could see himself, amazed...1899, Imprimerie Verneau, 114 rue Oberkampf, Lithograph,140x100. TBE.