The Precious Stones
A museum-exhibition poster of Alphonse Mucha's The Precious Stones — the complete four-panel Precious Stones — Ruby, Amethyst, Emerald and Topaz — each gem personified with its own flowers — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Art Nouveau and The Belle Époque, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)
- Year
- 1900
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (four decorative panels)
- Collection
- Mucha Trust / private collections; impressions in public collections
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Series
- The Precious Stones
Four tall panels, each with a woman seated above a realistically drawn flower whose colour matches a gemstone: Topaz in golden robes above an honesty plant, Ruby with cherries in her hair holding a pendant above red blooms, Amethyst lifting her hair above dark pink irises, and Emerald with a green snake in her dark red hair above green foliage. Mucha designed the set in Paris in 1900, the year of the Exposition Universelle, and F. Champenois printed it as colour lithographs for framing. The figures occupy the upper part of each panel on a mosaic halo, and the robes, hair ornaments and even the eyes are keyed to the stone's hue. It was one of the last of his great Paris decorative series before he turned toward the Slav subjects of his later career.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
