Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile

1896

Alphonse Marie Mucha

Associated Names
Alphonse Marie Mucha

Artist, Czech, 1860 - 1939

F. Champenois

Publisher

This print depicts a woman seated with her body turned slightly to the right. She is facing us with a slight smile, and raises one hand out to the right, holding a plate of biscuits. She has light skin, rosy cheeks, and long, wavy blonde hair. She wears an off-shoulder light blue dress with a pink ribbon decorated with crescent patterns. She has a wreath of large red flowers on her head. The background is in shades of light blue, green, yellow, and cream, with an arched border at the top in red with golden swirls. At the bottom is what appears to be a calendar for 1897 designed in a semicircular fan shape. The text above the woman's head reads "Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile" in red text on a white background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on paper laid down on linen

  • Credit Line

    Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 61.28 × 43.5 cm (24 1/8 × 17 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.140.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bridges 1980, no. C5


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Arabesque, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2019-2020, no. 28, repro.

Bibliography

1980

  • Bridges, Ann. Alphonse Mucha: the complete graphic works. New York, 1980: no. C5.

Inscriptions

on stone, in image, across top: Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile; on stone, in image, at lower left: Mucha; on stone, in image, at bottom center: F. Champenois. Paris.

Wikidata ID

Q77258745

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