Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Alfons Mucha - F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur.jpg

Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

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Original - F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur, lithograph, 1897. The printing business here advertised, F. Champenois, was also used by Mucha for some of his prints for other clients.

Reason

Mucha produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, and designs, and his lithographies in particular are considered a formative influence in Art Nouveau. Mucha used female subjects on posters advertising such diverse items as alcoholic beverages (one is for Trappist beer, others for sparkling wines and other beers) and baby food in the late 1890s. This work is typical in framing the subject in a circle, richly decorated with what sometimes are symbolist elements.

Articles in which this image appears

Alphonse Mucha, List of works by Alphonse Mucha

FP category for this image

Artwork/Others

Creator

Alphonse Mucha

• Support as nominator --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support Seems very well restored. Where can I find out about the symbolism he used? --I'ḏ♥One 18:13, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
  • According to one reviewer, there's something in this book. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 18:57, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
• Comment: I'd like to support this, but what's the stamp on the bottom to the left of the signature? And what's the slightly darker band at the bottom? I doubt either of them were in the original... J Milburn (talk) 22:05, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
• Comment: Uneven brightness (compare the background behind the date in the top left to the background behind the date in top right, as well as a lot of banding visible in the bootom quarter), significant clipping along the top edge. 78.245.228.100 (talk) 22:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose. Clipped in the upper left and lower right corners. Kaldari (talk) 20:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
  • By which you mean that there's a bit of the border missing. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
    • Maybe he does PLW but I'll be honest I can't really see any clipping... looks rounded to me which would not be there if clipped... Gazhiley (talk) 12:33, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support So nice --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 11:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose, for now. Concerns not dealt with. J Milburn (talk) 11:14, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 19:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)