A hat-crowned woman garlanded in roses holds a tall staff

A woman in a wide dark hat and curled fringe looks out from beneath a cascade of cream, peach and pink roses draped across one shoulder. One hand grips a tall staff with an ornate head at the left, and a pale locket hangs at her waist. Behind her, a smaller ghostly figure in a white veil looks upward within a radiating gold-and-blue halo pattern. Lettering names the play La Tosca, by Victorien Sardou, performed at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt.

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.

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