The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Gismonda
The overnight poster that invented a style.
- Work
- Alphonse Mucha, Gismonda (Sarah Bernhardt, Théâtre de la Renaissance)
- Artist / creator
- Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1894
- Held by
- Published Paris (Lemercier) for the Théâtre de la Renaissance
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
On the day after Christmas 1894, Sarah Bernhardt demanded a new poster by New Year and the only artist in the shop was an unknown Czech. Mucha gave her something nobody had seen: a tall, narrow, almost life-size panel, pale and Byzantine, the actress standing calm and full-length in a palm-frond crown with a mosaic arch behind her — no shouting, no crowded advertising. Paris woke up to them on the walls and collectors bribed the billstickers to cut them down. Bernhardt signed him for six years. A single overnight commission, and a style was born with a name attached to it.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Published Paris (Lemercier) for the Théâtre de la Renaissance’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
