Wedding Menu Mucha Privat Livemont Brussels Art Nouveau Viollet Le Duc Collard Vonnot Viollet

Menu on silk with a woven motif of a medallion showing a woman in profile, with a bunch of grapes in her hair and flowers, symbolizing Autumn. This motif was designed by the famous poster artist Alfonse Mucha (1860-1939) or by the Belgian Henri Privat Livemont (1861-1936). Menu printed by Fortin & Cie in Paris. Wedding menu at the Hotel Métropole in Brussels for Yvonne Viollet-Le-Duc, second cousin of the famous architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc and Guillaume Collard, jeweler in Brussels. Yvonne Viollet-Le-Duc was born in Le Havre on September 22, 1883 and died in Schaerbeek (Brussels, Belgium) on November 2, 1936. She pursued a career as a painter under the pseudonym "Vonnot Viollet". She is said to have served as a model for Privat Livemont for the graffiti on the facades of 17 rue Vogler in Schaerbeek and 79 avenue Bel-Air in Uccle. She also lived in the studio at 17 rue Vogler after the death of the painter Alfred Ruytinx (nephew of Privat Livemont) until his death in 1936. Yvonne Vonnot Viollet served as a model on several occasions for the painter Oswald Poreau, whose student she was before becoming his partner.