Metropolitan Museum Of Art Silk Scarf Art Nouveau Peacock Satin Square

Approximately 31” square Black and white silk scarf Comes with original information card and envelope : ART NOUVEAU PEACOCK SATIN SQUARE adapted from an original design in Combinaisons Ornamentales, ca. 1900 Maurice-Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869-1942), Georges Auriol (French, 1863-1938), and Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939) During the 1890s and early 1900s, a movement now usually known as art nouveau arose throughout Europe and the United States. It derived its name from a shop opened in Paris (called the "Maison de l'Art Nouveau") by the entrepreneur Siegfried Bing, who employed most of the leading designers of the day and helped to spread their work. By that time, however, the movement had already been in full force for several years. Art nouveau was primarily a new style of decoration based on sinuous curves, nominally inspired by Rococo forms, which often suggest organic shapes. In the Museum's collection is a book entitled Combinaisons Ornamentales, originally published around 1900 by Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts. Combinaisons Ornamentales contains a suite of sixty color lithographs after decorative art nouveau devices by Maurice-Pillard Verneuil, Georges Auriol, and Alphonse Mucha, who were among the leading designers of the time. The Museum's Art Nouveau Peacock Satin Square is adapted from a design of a peacock feather—a motif frequently used in art nouveau work— found on the 14th lithograph, which is signed by Verneuil. Imported satin charmeuse.