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Le Pater: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" | Alphonse Mucha | 1899

Le Pater: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" | Alphonse Mucha | 1899

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“Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” is one plate from Le Pater, Alphonse Mucha’s deeply personal illustrated edition of the Lord’s Prayer created at the end of the 19th century. Unlike his better-known commercial posters, this work reflects Mucha’s spiritual and philosophical interests, blending mystical symbolism with Art Nouveau design. He conceived Le Pater as a visual meditation on each verse of the prayer, using floral borders, calligraphic text, and allegorical imagery to express ideas about sustenance, faith, and human aspiration. Mucha saw this project as a serious artistic statement and placed it above his commercial work, aiming to communicate a message of light and spiritual progress at the close of the century.

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  • Title Le Pater — "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" (Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien) — illustration for the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer in the illustrated book Le Pater
  • Artist Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Maria Mucha; Czech Art Nouveau painter, illustrator and graphic artist; Ivančice, Moravia, 24 July 1860 - Prague, 14 July 1939)
  • Year of creation 1899 (Le Pater — Mucha's illustrated meditation on the Lord's Prayer — was struck by F. Champenois in Paris on 20 December 1899 in an edition of 510 copies, published by Henri Piazza, with the express agreement that the plates would never be reprinted. Mucha considered Le Pater alongside The Slav Epic his great masterworks; he told The Sun newspaper of New York on 5 January 1900 that this was the work into which he "had put his soul." Unlike his famous commercial posters, Le Pater was a deeply personal artistic and spiritual statement, written and designed by Mucha himself as a visual meditation on each of the seven verses of the Pater Noster. Each verse is illustrated by a set of three plates: a calligraphic prayer plate with decorative border, a Byzantine-style symbolic mandala, and a monochrome reproduction of a Symbolist painting. The book reflects Mucha's interests at the close of the nineteenth century — Art Nouveau's reverence for nature, fin-de-siècle Mysticism, and the iconography of religion — and his deep engagement with Masonic teachings, with which the imagery shares a coded symbolic language. He combined the aesthetics of Medieval illuminated manuscripts with Moorish arabesques, Byzantine mandalas, and Classical Renaissance composition. "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" / "Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien" — the fourth petition — is signed in the plate)
  • Technique/Medium Stone lithograph on paper, published as a folio illustrated book; the design is reproduced both as a monochrome sepia plate and, for the "illuminated manuscript" calligraphic version, with colour-lithograph border. Some impressions of certain plates also exist as hand-coloured pochoir
  • Original dimensions Sheet approximately 40 x 30 cm (some plates approximately 41.5 x 31 cm or 11 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches; the dimensions vary slightly across the different plate types within the book)
  • Collection/Museum Multiple impressions held in major museum collections and private hands; complete sets of Le Pater are held in institutions including the Mucha Museum, Prague; the Mucha Trust Collection; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; and others. The original 1899 sketches and drawings for the cycle are largely held by the Mucha Trust

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