Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2083
Scan of Baker Chocolate trade card showing La Belle Chocolatiere. On verso: Unlike the Dutch Process no alkalies or other chemicals used. … Baker’s Breakfast Cocoa.
From Wikipedia:
The Chocolate Girl (French: La Belle Chocolatière, German: Das Schokoladenmädchen) is one of the most prominent pastels of Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, showing a chocolate-serving maid. The girl carries a tray with a porcelain chocolate mug and a glass of water. Liotard’s contemporaries classed The Chocolate Girl as his masterpiece. In 1862 the American Baker’s Chocolate Company obtained the rights to use the painting.
Walter Baker & Co., was Dorchester’s most prominent manufacturing company until the company was moved to Delaware in the 1960s.
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