Alphonse Mucha, who is the most widely recognized figure of the style we know as Art Nouveau, at one time called “Le style Mucha”, created three series of posters in which he portrayed the fourseasons as young women surrounded by elements associated with the season.
This is his interpretaion of Spring from the first of these series (and my favorite), published in 1896. This epitomizes all of the grace and decorative flair we associate with the Czech artist.
There is a page devoted to the work in the Mucha Foudaiton website.
Taking that image as my cue for color fidelity, I found an unusually large image of the piece on the French version of Pinterest.
Happy Vernal Equinox!
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