Album de Marine: Sketchbook of 48 folios containing 17 watercolors and 27 black chalk and graphite sketches
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1879–80
Medium
Graphite, watercolor and black chalk on paper
Dimensions
5-7/8 x 9-1/4 in. (14.9 x 23.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, 1958
Accession Number
58.130
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About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...