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.
Zodiac
A woman crowned by the wheel of the heavens.
- Work
- Alphonse Mucha, Zodiac (La Plume)
- Artist / creator
- Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1896
- Held by
- Published Paris (La Plume)
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$24.00
The story
A woman in strict profile, jeweled and diademed, set against a great golden disc ringed with the twelve signs of the zodiac — Mucha’s most reproduced design, made in 1896 as a calendar. Every inch is worked: the coils of her hair, the Byzantine ornament, the astrological wheel turning behind her like a halo. It is the moment decorative art discovered it could be as ambitious as any painting. A perfect bridge to the celestial and the astrological — the heavens rendered as pure ornament.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Published Paris (La Plume)’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.
