Perrier Sends the Mona Lisa Wild for a Bottle of Sparkling Water
Perrier's 'Mona Lisa' campaign is a 2019 French television and digital film in which Leonardo da Vinci's most famous subject abandons her frame at the Louvre, ventures into contemporary Paris, and ultimately reaches for a bottle of Perrier — a comedic expression of the brand's 'Go For The Extraordinaire' platform created by agency Rosapark.
The campaign launched on 31 May 2019, according to trade announcements documented by adsoftheworld.com and moreaboutadvertising.com, with its first television broadcast on 2 June 2019. French advertising trade press picked up the announcement on 3 June 2019, per packshotmag.com. Conceived by Rosapark — the Paris agency co-founded by Jean-Patrick Chiquiar, Gilles Fichteberg, and Jean-François Sacco — the work sits squarely within the Food and Drink category and represents one of the more architecturally ambitious executions the Perrier brand produced under its 'Go For The Extraordinaire' strategic platform, which the brand first established in 2015 according to adsoftheworld.com.
In France, where the Louvre alone attracts considerable daily footfall — the campaign referenced the painting attracting more than 20,000 visitors per day, as cited by moreaboutadvertising.com — the choice of the Mona Lisa as protagonist carried immediate cultural legibility. The campaign ran across television, web, social media, and urban outdoor advertising including the Paris Metro, as documented by packshotmag.com, ensuring broad coverage across the French market. Social media executions were produced in four cut-down formats: six, ten, twenty, and thirty seconds, per packshotmag.com and Reason Why, allowing the narrative to flex across platforms without losing its central comic premise. The single film asset anchors the campaign, with print executions extending the visual language into additional media. Clapboard rates this campaign 63 out of 100.
Perrier occupies the premium tier of the non-alcoholic drinks category in France and internationally. The 'Go For The Extraordinaire' platform, active since 2015 according to adsoftheworld.com, functions as a consistent creative frame that requires each execution to find a new cultural object worthy of the adjective. Choosing the Mona Lisa in 2019 was a strategic escalation: few images carry the same universal recognition, and in the French market the painting sits at the intersection of national heritage and global tourism.
Perrier's competitive context at this time was sharpening. Nestlé-owned San Pellegrino — Perrier's most direct premium sparkling-water rival — held a significant presence across European markets, while Coca-Cola completed its acquisition of Topo Chico in 2019, strengthening its own premium sparkling-water position in international markets, as reported by bandt.com.au. These moves compressed the premium segment and increased pressure on Perrier to defend its identity as the original distinctively French sparkling water. According to zippia.com, Perrier held approximately 9.2% share of the US seltzer, sparkling, and mineral-water market in 2019, a figure that reflects the brand's established international standing even as the core strategic imperative for this campaign was domestic French resonance.
Rosapark's strategic choice to anchor the campaign in French cultural patrimony rather than in functional product attributes — carbonation, taste, hydration — reflects a mature understanding of how luxury-adjacent beverage brands sustain relevance. The Mona Lisa requires no explanation in France. By casting her as a creature of desire who abandons centuries of dignified confinement the moment she spots a Perrier, the agency transforms the brand from a product into a permission: an invitation to pursue the extraordinary at the expense of the conventional. That positioning differentiates Perrier from both San Pellegrino's Italian elegance codes and the utilitarian health framing that newer sparkling-water entrants employ across the French market.
Manu Cossu directed the 'Mona Lisa' film for Perrier, with Iconoclast Paris serving as production company, as documented by packshotmag.com and shots.net. The central conceit — a painting's subject achieving physical autonomy and navigating contemporary Paris — demanded a production approach capable of blending period iconography with modern urban footage in a way that reads as comedy rather than pastiche.
The creative team at Rosapark comprised copywriters Julien Moulin and Pierre-Antoine Dupin, and art directors Antoine Blondet, Frédéric Leclerc, and Sophian Bouadjera, according to adsoftheworld.com. Jean Duhamel produced the film, with Annabel Rosier as line producer and Nick Page as executive producer, per packshotmag.com. Mathias Boucard served as director of photography, bringing visual coherence to a film that moves between the warm amber registers of the Louvre and the brightness of Parisian streets, as credited by packshotmag.com and reasonwhy.es.
Post-production was handled by Machine Molle, with Cyril Bordesoulle and Marine Ligouzat as post-producers, and editing credited to Philippe Roch and Nicolas Larouquère, per packshotmag.com. Colour grading was performed by Mathieu Caplanne, whose work underpins the tonal shift that marks the Mona Lisa's transition from canvas to city. Sound production was provided by Schmooze, with Matthieu Sibony and Grégoire Galian as sound producers, according to packshotmag.com and reasonwhy.es — a credit that matters in a film where comic timing is partly sonic. Print executions extending the campaign into outdoor and press formats were photographed by Charlotte Rutherford, as documented by adsoftheworld.com, adding a fashion-inflected photographic sensibility that complements the film's more theatrical energy. The combined production roster reflects a campaign assembled with the ambition of a prestige brand film rather than a conventional fast-moving consumer goods spot.
No independently verified performance data — such as campaign-attributed sales uplift, television ratings, or paid digital reach figures — for Perrier's 'Mona Lisa' campaign is publicly available at the time of writing. Trade coverage in France was substantive at launch, with packshotmag.com, moreaboutadvertising.com, and adsoftheworld.com all documenting the campaign in detail, which is itself a signal of industry interest beyond routine product advertising.
Structurally, the campaign demonstrates several attributes associated with durable brand-building effectiveness. The narrative is self-contained and re-watchable — a quality that supports the four social-media cut-down formats, from six to thirty seconds, which packshotmag.com documented. The cultural asset at its centre, the Mona Lisa, is free of licensing cost and inexhaustible in its recognisability across the French market and internationally. The multi-channel deployment across television, digital, outdoor, and the Paris Metro, as reported by packshotmag.com, maximised reach within the campaign's primary geographic market. The Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100 reflects a campaign with genuine creative ambition and strong production values that nonetheless stops short of the category-defining work required for higher recognition — a rating that positions it as accomplished brand entertainment rather than groundbreaking creative. For a brand whose 'Go For The Extraordinaire' platform demands that each new execution raise the cultural stakes, 'Mona Lisa' succeeds in meeting that brief without necessarily transcending it.
Perrier's 'Mona Lisa' is a 2019 French advertising campaign created by Rosapark. The film shows Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa leaving the Louvre to pursue a bottle of Perrier across contemporary Paris, expressing the brand's 'Go For The Extraordinaire' platform across television, digital, and outdoor channels in France.
Rosapark created the Perrier 'Mona Lisa' campaign. The Paris agency, co-founded by Jean-Patrick Chiquiar, Gilles Fichteberg, and Jean-François Sacco, developed the campaign as part of the ongoing 'Go For The Extraordinaire' brand platform. The film was directed by Manu Cossu through production company Iconoclast Paris, according to packshotmag.com.
Perrier's 'Mona Lisa' campaign launched on 31 May 2019, according to adsoftheworld.com and moreaboutadvertising.com. Its first television broadcast occurred on 2 June 2019, with French advertising trade press coverage following on 3 June 2019, per packshotmag.com. The campaign ran across television, social media, and Paris Metro outdoor placements.
Perrier's 'Go For The Extraordinaire' is the strategic brand platform under which the 'Mona Lisa' campaign was created. First established in 2015 according to adsoftheworld.com, the platform frames each campaign around a culturally elevated idea. The Mona Lisa execution represents one of its most recognisable deployments in the French market.
Perrier's 'Mona Lisa' campaign received a Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100. This positions the work as a creatively accomplished and well-produced brand film with strong cultural grounding in France, though it falls short of the category-defining standard required for higher scores on Clapboard's creative effectiveness index.
Manu Cossu directed the Perrier 'Mona Lisa' film, with Iconoclast Paris serving as the production company, as documented by packshotmag.com and shots.net. Director of photography Mathias Boucard handled the visual work, while post-production was completed by Machine Molle and sound by Schmooze, per packshotmag.com and reasonwhy.es.
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