painting

[jjt]

in which 19th century french painting is a bottle of bass india pale ale seen?

[Gnu]

Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere has a bottle that could well be Bass IPA. Have a look at the picture, on the bar on the left.

http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/manet/manet-review.htm l

[jno]

bigger one on the right too. Strictly speaking, if Manet wanted to paint British beer he should probably have used watercolour.

[Zen]

It is Manets painting,the bottle has the Bass red triangle trade mark on it

[Peter Pedant]

Trade marks my dears predate trade names and the reason is that the illiterates in the C19 could look for the (protected trademark) in the window or through the window, and think

Ah! They sell X - in this case Pale Ale

and then they could go in and ask for it, without embarassment.

IN view of the protected and separate nature of trademarks and the laws against passing-off (making one look like the other), I would not say, it looks like or seems it might be...

it quite obviously is.

[jno]

trade marks do predate names, but I'm not sure how much legal protection they had in those days. Dickens was plagued with rip-off Pickwick Papers after his stories became famous. My guess is that anyone could have put red triangles on their bottles; it might have been technically illegal but tough to enforce. On the other hand, you'd expect the Folies to sell the real thing, especially if they had discerning British patrons.