{{short description|French apéritif advertisement painted by Leonetto Cappiello in 1906}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file = Plakat Cappiello - Maurin Quina 06.jpg | image_upright = 0.8 | painting_alignment = | image_size = | title = Maurin Quina | other_language_1 = | other_title_1 = | artist = Leonetto Cappiello | height_metric = | width_metric = | length_metric = | height_imperial = | width_imperial = | length_imperial = | diameter_metric = | diameter_imperial = | dimensions = | city = | museum = | coordinates = <!-- Only use for the exact coordinates of the artwork itself (and only where known) and not for the coordinates of the museum. Leave blank if coordinates are not known. --> | owner = }} '''''Maurin Quina''''' is a French apéritif advertisement painted by Leonetto Cappiello in 1906.<ref name="au"/> It is perhaps Cappiello's most famous poster.<ref name="au">National Gallery of Australia. [http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=144322 "Maurin Quina."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928201044/http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=144322 |date=2011-09-28 }}</ref>
The image features a devilish figure sneakily de-corking the bottle; Cappiello used "infernal imagery" in several of his posters for alcohol.<ref name="au"/> The green devil in particular evokes ''la fée verte'' (the green fairy), the nickname for absinthe,<ref>[https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-devil-in-a-little-green-bottle-a-history-of-absinthe The Devil in a Little Green Bottle: A History of Absinthe]</ref> a drink popular during the Belle Époque.<ref name="au"/> The product was banned by the French government shortly after it was released. This poster, however, is an advertisement for an alcoholic beverage that went out of production in 1906. Maurin is the brand name and Quina is the type of alcohol. The product has since been reintroduced to both the French and American marketplace, featuring Cappiello's poster as the label. It is cherry in flavor with a background of quinine. It is similar to a liqueur, but does not contain enough sugar content to legally be classified as one.
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Category:1906 paintings Category:Advertisements Category:Cultural depictions of the Devil Category:Belle Époque
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