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.
JOB
Hair like smoke — the most famous poster of the Belle Époque.
- Work
- Alphonse Mucha, JOB (cigarette papers)
- Artist / creator
- Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1896
- Held by
- Published Paris (Champenois) for JOB
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 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
An advertisement for cigarette papers, and one of the most beautiful printed objects of the nineteenth century. A woman leans back with her eyes half closed, and her hair — the thing everyone remembers — unfurls around her in enormous whiplash coils that fill the sheet, rhyming with the drifting smoke. The lettering sits behind her in a golden mosaic field; the palette is amber, ivory and deep umber. Mucha treated a commercial commission with the ambition of a fresco, and Paris peeled his posters off the hoardings to keep them. Proof that the Art Nouveau line was invented on the street, not in the salon.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Published Paris (Champenois) for JOB’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.
