Alphonse Marie Mucha, Hines, Stroud & Co., Ateliers C.G. Forrier, Scheurer, Lauth & Cie
Femme à la Marguerite
1898-1899
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Alphonse Marie Mucha, Hines, Stroud & Co., Ateliers C.G. Forrier, Scheurer, Lauth & Cie
Femme à la Marguerite
1898-1899
Physical Qualities
Cotton velveteen, 27 3/4 x 30 7/8 in. (70.5 x 78.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund
Object Number
2003.142
Alphonse Mucha has been named by some art historians as the "pre-eminent lithographic artist of the French Art Nouveau movement," but he did much to popularize the Art Nouveau style in decorative Arts as well. In addition to lithographs, he designed jewelry, silverware, wallpapers, commercial posters, sculpture, embroidery, rugs, and fabrics. Femme a la Marguerite presents Mucha's vision of the decorative, exotic, Art Nouveau woman in the same graphic style that he had established in 1894 with his poster of actress Sarah Bernhardt, entitled Gismonda. This printed velveteen was one of a number of watercolors Mucha created for the commercial design studio Atelier C..G..Forrer of Paris, variations of which were sold by the London firm Hines, Stroud & Co. of London. The panel was intended for domestic uses, such as fire screen panels and cushion covers.
Publication References
Andre, Linda, and Jessica Skwire Routhier, eds. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating A Museum. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, ill. p. 126.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; Cora GInsberg LLC, New York, NY.
C. Lubell, (ed.), Textile Collections of the World, Vol. III, 1977, p. 78. I.D.'S Hines, Stroud & Co. as printers of the work and therefore i.d.'s as English).
Ann Bridges, ed., Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Graphic Works, New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 36, 150, p. 39.
Giovanni e Rosalia Fanelli, Il tessuto Art Nouveau, Disegno Moda Architettura, Firenze (Florence): Cantini Edizioni d'Arte, 1986, fig. 84, illustrated as A. Mucha's Langage des Fleurs, design for textile, from documents d'atelier [Forrer], c. 1900.
Ruth Gronwoldt, Art Nouveau - Textil Dekor Um 1900, 198, os 61-65, pp. 96-101.
Paul Greenhalgh, ed., Art Nouveau 1890-1914, 2000, pp. 185-186, 11.7.
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Designers at The Paris Salons 1895-1914, England, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club/ Alastair Duncan, 2002, p. 14, illus.
Parry, Linda et al. British Textiles: 1700 to the Present. London: V & A Publishing, 2010, related piece by Mucha, p. 331, Cat. Number 4.147, example from V&A of similar piece.
Ann Bridges, ed., Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Graphic Works, New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 36, 150, p. 39.
Giovanni e Rosalia Fanelli, Il tessuto Art Nouveau, Disegno Moda Architettura, Firenze (Florence): Cantini Edizioni d'Arte, 1986, fig. 84, illustrated as A. Mucha's Langage des Fleurs, design for textile, from documents d'atelier [Forrer], c. 1900.
Ruth Gronwoldt, Art Nouveau - Textil Dekor Um 1900, 198, os 61-65, pp. 96-101.
Paul Greenhalgh, ed., Art Nouveau 1890-1914, 2000, pp. 185-186, 11.7.
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Designers at The Paris Salons 1895-1914, England, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club/ Alastair Duncan, 2002, p. 14, illus.
Parry, Linda et al. British Textiles: 1700 to the Present. London: V & A Publishing, 2010, related piece by Mucha, p. 331, Cat. Number 4.147, example from V&A of similar piece.
Inscribed: Printed within design: "Mucha" Original adhesive paper label on front of textile, lower right: "19093/680" Note: label on nearly identical panel in Wadsworth Atheneum says "19083/SATIN COUVERTURE". Could "9" be and "8" on ours?