Belle Epoque Posters
Alphonse Mucha
3 works
Paris advertising from the 1890s, back when it was worth framing. Tall and loud.
In the 1890s the colour lithograph made it possible to print a poster the size of a person, and Paris covered its walls with them. Theatres, cabarets, bicycles and lamp oil were all sold this way, by artists who took the work seriously enough that collectors were peeling them off hoardings within the decade.
Tall, loud and designed to stop somebody in the street — which suits a screen mounted upright in a hallway or a shop window.
About the artist
Alphonse Mucha
Czech, 1860–1939. Built a whole decorative style around Sarah Bernhardt’s theatre bills, and spent his later years on a cycle of vast history paintings almost nobody associates with him.
The works
A mix of portrait and landscape. Mirra can show only the ones that fit your screen, or mat the rest.
Zodiaque ("La Plume")
Alphonse Marie Mucha · 1896–97 · Color lithograph from multiple stones on tan wove paper
Mrs. Victor F. Lawson Collection
CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Source
The Seasons
Alphonse Marie Mucha · 1897 · Color lithograph on paper
Gift of Michael Searle
CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Source
La Samaritaine
Alphonse Marie Mucha · 1897 · Color lithograph from multiple stones on paper
Mrs. Victor F. Lawson Collection
CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Source
Put this on a wall
Every collection here is included with Mirra. Pair a screen, point an art widget at it, and it plays.