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Gismonda — Alphonse Mucha, 1894
Alphonse Mucha · French theatrical poster, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 1894
What it is
Mucha’s poster for Sarah Bernhardt’s Gismonda — a tall, narrow sheet of Byzantine pattern and a single serene figure.
Why it matters
Commissioned in a rush over a Paris holiday, it made Mucha famous within days and set the whole visual language later called Art Nouveau.
What to notice
The elongated format itself was new — a life-size sliver of a woman, printed to be seen at a glance across a boulevard.
One rushed job, and a whole style was born.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Alphonse Mucha
- Printer / house
- lithograph
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- French theatrical poster, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 1894
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
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