sentences:  When "Gismonda" opened in October 1894, Mucha had been commissioned by the magazine "Le Gaulois" to make a series of illustrations of Bernhardt in the role for a special Christmas supplement, which was published at Christmas 1894, for the high price of fifty centimes a copy.Brunhoff asked Mucha to quickly design the new poster for Bernhardt.The poster was more than life-size; a little more than two meters high, with Bernhardt in the costume of a Byzantine noblewoman, dressed in an orchid headdress and floral stole, and holding a palm branch in the Easter procession near the end of the play.