Details
'ITALIAN GIRL', A WATERCOLOR AND INK MAQUETTE
BY ALPHONSE MUCHA
Depicting a young girl in peasant dress resting on a ledge with a basket of peaches next to her, with a bridge, church, fortress and houses behind her in the distance, framed by a border of stylized flowers and knotted circles, signed lower left Mucha--4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high, 8in. (20.3cm.) wide, framed
Italian Girl, a maquette for Lefèvre-Utile biscuit cartons, was probably used for the line of biscuits called Mélange Italien.
BY ALPHONSE MUCHA
Depicting a young girl in peasant dress resting on a ledge with a basket of peaches next to her, with a bridge, church, fortress and houses behind her in the distance, framed by a border of stylized flowers and knotted circles, signed lower left Mucha--4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high, 8in. (20.3cm.) wide, framed
Italian Girl, a maquette for Lefèvre-Utile biscuit cartons, was probably used for the line of biscuits called Mélange Italien.
Provenance
Posters Please, New York