Night's Rest By Alphonse Mucha

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I own a portrait called, “Night’s Rest”, made by Alphonse Mucha. The style known as “Art Nouveau” is a modernized and popularized style. The portrait has many components that that makes it unique, such as the style, artist, and how it was made. Alfons Maria Mucha, Anglicised to Alphonse Mucha, used a wide variety of materials. This artist from the Czech Republic is a self taught artist who “designed labels for champagne, liquors, biscuits, perfume, even cigarette paper” (Alphonse Mucha). He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1885 to 1887, and later moved to Paris to study. When he was in Paris, he shared a studio with Paul Gauguin, an impressionist artist. “Mucha became famous with a commission for a poster for the actress Sarah