Sarah Bernhardt
Alphonse Marie Mucha
c. 1898
Medium
Black chalk on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
49.7 × 41.4 cm (19 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23078
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alphonse Marie Mucha · 1860–1939
**Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860–1939)** was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist whose elegant, decorative style became synonymous with Art Nouveau. Born on 24 July 1860 in the small town of Ivančice in southern Moravia (then part of the Austrian Empire), he was the eldest of six children in a modest family; his father Ondřej worked as a court usher and his mother Amálie was a miller’s da...