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This print depicts a woman seated with her body turned slightly to the right. She is facing us with a slight smile, and raises one hand out to the right, holding a plate of biscuits. She has light skin, rosy cheeks, and long, wavy blonde hair. She wears an off-shoulder light blue dress with a pink ribbon decorated with crescent patterns. She has a wreath of large red flowers on her head. The background is in shades of light blue, green, yellow, and cream, with an arched border at the top in red with golden swirls. At the bottom is what appears to be a calendar for 1897 designed in a semicircular fan shape. The text above the woman's head reads "Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile" in red text on a white background.
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This print depicts a woman seated with her body turned slightly to the right. She is facing us with a slight smile, and raises one hand out to the right, holding a plate of biscuits. She has light skin, rosy cheeks, and long, wavy blonde hair. She wears an off-shoulder light blue dress with a pink ribbon decorated with crescent patterns. She has a wreath of large red flowers on her head. The background is in shades of light blue, green, yellow, and cream, with an arched border at the top in red with golden swirls. At the bottom is what appears to be a calendar for 1897 designed in a semicircular fan shape. The text above the woman's head reads "Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile" in red text on a white background.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile

Alphonse Marie Mucha

Date
1896
Medium
color lithograph on paper laid down on linen
Dimensions
sheet: 61.28 × 43.5 cm (24 1/8 × 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2016.140.2
Credit line
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Woman
  • Art Nouveau
Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Inscription

on stone, in image, across top: Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile; on stone, in image, at lower left: Mucha; on stone, in image, at bottom center: F. Champenois. Paris.

NGA object ID 208207. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.