Orange reeds, white water lilies and dragonflies fill an arched panel

A vertical, arch-topped design drawing built from thick black lead-lines like a stained-glass window: tall orange-outlined reed leaves rise from a dark teal pond, crossing a purple-brown ground at the top with pale blue-grey sky panels showing through. Five dragonflies with pale mauve-blue banded wings are scattered among the stems. Below, cream water-lily blooms with yellow centres and olive-yellow lily pads float on the teal water. A gouache design for a stained-glass window for the Fouquet jewellery shop, Paris, about 1901.

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created the look of Art Nouveau almost overnight with his 1894 poster for Sarah Bernhardt's Gismonda. Through the following decade in Paris his theatre bills, advertising panels and decorative series — the Seasons, the Flowers, the Times of Day — set women in halos of stylised ornament, pale colour and flowing hair. He later devoted himself to the Slav Epic, a cycle of twenty monumental canvases. His work is held by the Mucha Museum in Prague and the Musée d'Orsay.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.