Title: Poster of Maude Adams, as Joan Arc
Date: 1909
Movement: Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, most well known for his images of women. Mucha produced many paintings of a collection of commercial art, a formidable presence in advertisements, book illustrations and theater posters among others. The image depicts the American actress Maude Adams in the role of Joan of Arc in Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans).
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