A black cat crouches over a glass of absinthe on a wooden table scattered with bottles and a "Pontarlier" label, rendered in warm mustard yellows and rich browns against a luminous golden background. The composition captures a moment of mischievous curiosity with bold, flat colors and strong shadows characteristic of Belle Époque advertising art, where the feline becomes an unlikely companion to this notorious 19th-century spirit. For a bar, kitchen, or eclectic art collection with vintage character. A Baltic birch top with the artwork printed across it, made to order on steel legs in black or gold. The center of the room as an independent artist's work, not a flat-pack lookalike.