Plate: PL. 182

"The jovial beer drinker has her long flowing tresses adorned with some appropriate beer ingredients, including barley stalks and green hops, and large field poppy flowers indigenous to north-eastern France. This is another of Mucha's characteristic designs featuring a beauty, semicircular and circular motifs, and artfully meandering hair…This was the poster chosen by A. Willette in an amusing caricature (a supplement to Mâitre de l'Affiche) in which he drew a little girl kneeling before this Mucha masterpiece, assuming it to be a picture of a saint (see SP.PL.11)"(Rennert/Weill p.126)

Perhaps the most beautiful beer poster ever created, demonstrating, once again, the unmistakeable genius of Alphonse Mucha.