# Seated Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MUCHA, Alphonse]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Drawing on paper, 496 x 437 mm ## Commentary In the 1890s in Paris, at the time of his greatest fame, Alphonse Mucha produced dozens of posters and other graphic design works. In this drawing, a study for a poster, Mucha addressed the question of the geometric stylization of a seated female figure featured within a circle – to which corresponds the semi-circular shape of the armchair with round metal fittings. In his large poster of 1898 advertising Job cigarette papers, he adopted a similar approach to stylizing the figure. Contrary to the poster, in the lower part of the figure in the illustration, the emphasis on linear construction is confronted with anatomical accuracy; this is perhaps why the drawing was ultimately not transposed into poster form. Nevertheless, the image remains a noteworthy testimony to the artist's working process used to produce his Parisian posters. ## Related artworks - [Absinth]() - [Banknote]() - [Boutique of Georges Fouquet]() - [Boutique of Georges Fouquet: storefront]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Cognac Bisquit]() - [Four Seasons]() - [Gismonda]() - [Glass window \(detail\)]() - [Glass window]() - [Madonna of the Lilies]() - [Moon and Stars]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()