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Inscriptions
Mucha stamp, lower right, in black ink Collection stamp, lower right corner, in green ink
Provenance
Sold by the AFI Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 36. Milwaukee Art Museum, "Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and his Contemporaries", June 1 - September 9, 2012, traveled to Dallas Museum of Art, October 14, 2012 - January 20, 2013.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 74, no. 4C3.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alphonse Marie Mucha / Czech, 1860-1939
- Date
- c. 1898
- Medium
- Black chalk on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 41.4 cm (19 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Czech Republic
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Katharine Kuh
- Accession no.
- 1965.236
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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