Almost a Swipe

This comment came in on the last post referring to Privat-Livemont:

Artman2112 said...

that's very nicely done but man, that figure is so close to the one in Mucha's "Gismonda" that it could almost be called a swipe!

Good point, and here, you can see for yourself . . .

Mucha — Gismonda — 1894

Exposition Internationale

Once again I'm in deadline crunch phase. I'll post here and there some individual images that have been scanned and waiting, but I won't have time for much explanation.

Here, a poster by one of the grand masters of art nouveau, following in the immediate wake of Mucha's upswell of technique, Henri Privat-Livemont. This image was created in 1896, for publication in 1897. Very majestic.

Privat-Livemont — Exposition Internationale — 1896

Biscuits

Alphonse Mucha showed other artists the way, and his style was immediately emulated—such as Biscuits de Beukelaer, a poster by Privat Livemont. Printed in Brussels in 1900, Livemont utilized a stylized vegetation background that was typical of his work.