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Art Nouveau

Mucha Gallery (Guide)

From stage muses to commercial posters, decorative panels, and a quiet late chapter.

Alphonse Mucha’s Art Nouveau posters and decorative panels — public-domain reproductions from Wikimedia Commons.

When Alphonse Mucha’s poster for Sarah Bernhardt’s Gismonda appeared on Paris street corners in 1894, decorative line and the idealized female figure became a new visual language. Mucha shaped Art Nouveau through theatre posters, commercial advertising, and sets of decorative panels.

This gallery is arranged in four rooms: stage muses, the golden age of commercial posters, decorative panel series, and a quiet late chapter toward the Slav Epic.

Sarah Bernhardt

Stage Muses

舞台のミューズ

Gismonda, Medea, La Dame aux Camélias, Lorenzaccio — the moment theatre posters became street decoration.

Street advertising

Commercial Posters

商業ポスターの黄金時代

Job, Ruinart, Cycles Perfecta, Waverley — commercial art where print technique met decorative line.

Sets of four

Decorative Panels

装飾パネル連作

The Seasons, Zodiac, Poetry — decorative panels meant to be seen as a series.

A quiet close

Late Period

晩年と転換期

From decorative documents toward the Slav Epic — a quieter passage beyond the posters’ brilliance.

These are digital reproductions of public-domain works. They are not licensed or endorsed by the Mucha Foundation.