Alphonse Mucha
Study for an Advertising Poster: Lance Parfum "Rodo"

ArtistCzech, 1860–1939
CultureCzech
Titles
  • Study for an Advertising Poster: Lance Parfum "Rodo"
Date1896
MediumBlack chalk, and brush and ink on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/8 × 12 5/8 in. (44.1 × 32 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.65
Non exposé

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Provenance[Unknown gallery sale, France, 1998]; Private collection, London; [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2018]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in black chalk, bottom left: Mucha
Catalogue raisonnéNone. For the poster, see Rennert & Weill, nº 14.

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