Sarah Bernhardt, La Dame aux Camélias, Mucha Fine 6 Cm Round Badge

Sarah Bernhardt, la Dame aux Camelias, Theatre de la Renaissance. Poster advertising the lady of the camellias (or Camille), a play by Alexandre Dumas, showing actress Sarah Bernhardt as Camille, full-length, against a background of silver stars, with a hand at lower left holding a branch of camellia blossoms. Lithograph by Alfons Maria (aka Alphonse Marie) Mucha, printed by Imp. F. Champenois, Paris, 1896. Alphonse Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was initially called the Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau.