Original Color Lithograph by Paul Berthon, Signed in Pencil, 1897, "L’Ermitage"

Paul Emile Berthonwas a gifted posterist and illustrator and a pupil of Grasset, who created some of the most endearing images of women. Berthon was a painter, lithographer, commercial artist of magazine covers and a designer of furniture and ceramics. He studied as a painter in Villefranche-sur-mer before going to Paris in 1893. Although he continued to study in Paris, his greatest influence was that of Eugene Grasset, another towering figure with Mucha. Berthon died at the untimely age of 37.