Iris - Les Maitre de l'Affiche - 1898

Hohenstein poster reading Iris [an opera], music by P[ietro] Mascagni, libretto by L[uigi] Illica, published by G. Ricordi & Co. 1898.- Adolf Hohenstein (German; born 1854): Born in St. Petersburg, worked in Italy and Germany; painted, did posters for Ricordi in Milan (including the one for Puccini's La boheme).