
In 1897, the Czech artist
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was commissioned to illustrate an edition of the Rudel legend written by
Robert de Flers, to coincide with the production of
La Princesse Lointaine, Edmond Rostand's play starring Sarah Bernhardt. The result,
Ilsee, has become one of Mucha's most celebrated works. In 2007, a two-volume set of proofs for the book, hand-watercolored by Mucha, were
put up for auction. Getty has
two press
images of the volumes.
A Czech website is selling individual pages as prints, and
has the whole book online in low resolution (terrible navigation though).
Also online are a
set of images from a (rather cheaply done) Dover Publications collection of artwork from
Ilsee, with the text removed.