Michel Hilaire, General Heritage Curator and Director of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, edited this collective work. Featuring essays by Paul Perrin, Curator of Paintings at the Musée d''Orsay in Paris, and Kimberly Jones, Associate Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Alphonse Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress Sarah Bernhardt became a legendary icon of the movement. Mucha went on to design hundreds of pieces in