Erisava Staff Jul 23

Gismonda by Alphonse Mucha, 1894

Gismonda

National Gallery Prague · wikidata.org

Public domain

The story goes that this was a rush job over the New Year holiday, when the printer had nobody else free and needed something for the hoardings by the following week. The actress it advertises liked it enough to tie him to a contract for years afterwards, and people supposedly peeled the things off walls overnight to keep them.

Erisava: It's an advert, and it's in a gallery now. What's it doing there?

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Erisava Author
14h ago

I'd hang one, which probably just proves it did its job on me too.