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Carte du Département de la Côte-d’Or
A department is a wine region wearing an administrative name.
What
Levasseur’s 1852 department map of the Côte-d’Or — the Burgundian heartland — bordered with the decorative engravings his Atlas National de la France Illustrée gave every department: the natural beauty and trade richness of the land, framing the map itself.
Why
Before there was a wine map, there was just a map — the Côte-d’Or was drawn as a place people governed and traded in long before it was drawn as a place people tasted. This is that map.
Notice
The department line runs the length of the slope without once mentioning a vineyard by name — the terroir hadn’t yet become the subject.
“Some maps become wine maps only in hindsight.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$49.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: Atlas National de la France Illustrée (Levasseur, 1852).
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Victor Levasseur (cartographer); Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie (engraver)
- Era
- Victor Levasseur, 1852
- Source
- Atlas National de la France Illustrée (Levasseur, 1852)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (source published 1930 or earlier). Cleared by registry on 2026-07-19. Levasseur, Atlas National de la France Illustrée, accession Côte-d’Or dept. plate, 1852. Wikimedia Commons file direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-19: PD-old-100. Retitled from the brief’s "Carte Vinicole de la Bourgogne" — the confirmed source is a general department map, not a dedicated vineyard-classification map (the brief’s exact map, per Jouffroy 1895, was only located on Gallica/BnF under a commercial-reuse restriction, not Commons); copy rewritten to describe what this map actually is.