Col du Grand St Bernard 1927

Roger Broders's Col du Grand St Bernard of 1927 carries the weight of history as well as the grandeur of the Alps. Made for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway, it draws travellers toward a mountain pass whose story stretches back nearly two thousand years.

The Great St Bernard Pass is one of the oldest crossings in the Western Alps, linking Martigny to Aosta over the Italian border. Its roots reach to Roman times, and it has witnessed pivotal moments in European history, most famously serving as Napoleon's route into Italy. Broders captures the pass's majestic scenery alongside its renowned Hospice, long celebrated for the legendary St Bernard dogs trained as mountain rescue animals. The result blends alpine spectacle with a deep sense of legend, an image where landscape and myth rise together. Perched above two thousand metres, the pass and its hospice have offered shelter to pilgrims and travellers for centuries, and that timeless welcome hums beneath the design.

Roger Broders (1883-1953) was a leading French Art Deco poster designer whose luminous railway images lured a generation toward the Alps, the Jura and the sun-drenched Riviera. He built his scenes from flat planes of saturated colour and elegant simplification, a discipline that made even a storied mountain pass read with instant clarity. He remains one of the most collectable names of the golden age of rail.

Art Deco, the movement that shaped the poster, emerged in 1920s France as a celebration of speed, luxury and machine-age geometry. Its designers reduced sweeping landscapes to bold, stylised colour, giving travel imagery its streamlined modern glamour. Broders lends that idiom to a place thick with history, marrying antique legend to a thoroughly modern graphic style.

Displayed large, the poster becomes a commanding focal point, its mountain palette and sense of story drawing the eye. It works beautifully above a sofa, mantel or bed, anchors a gallery wall of alpine and travel prints, and suits a living room, hallway, study, chalet or home office, bringing the majesty and history of the high passes indoors.

Each print is produced to order on premium 189 gsm museum-grade archival matte paper with fade-resistant pigment inks, for rich, gallery-quality colour and crisp, faithful detail. Choose your size from the drop-down menu: 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30 or 24x36 inches. Orders are carefully packaged and shipped rolled in a sturdy tube, or flat for the smallest size; a frame is not included.

This is a faithful fine-art reproduction of the original stone lithograph, colour-matched and printed to archival standards rather than a flat mass-market copy. It preserves the texture and character of the antique poster while arriving crisp, clean and ready to frame.

It makes a memorable gift for anyone who loves vintage travel posters, the Alps and mountain history, St Bernard dogs or Art Deco design, and a lasting way to bring a piece of alpine legend into a home, studio or workplace.