Au Bal des Etudiants
Medium
photographic reproduction of a drawing
Dimensions
mat size: 22 x 28 in.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Ferdinand H. Davis, 1949
Accession Number
49.77
Tags
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec the quintessential chronicler of Belle Époque Paris, captures the exuberant spirit of fin-de-siècle nightlife in *Au Bal desudiants* (At the Students' Ball), a photographic reproduction of one of his dynamic drawings. Active in the 1890s, Lautrec was a Post-Impressionist master known for his bold posters, lithographs, and that immortalized the cabarets, brothels, and social whirl of Montmartre. This undated work, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, exemplifies his fascination with the demi-monde—the lively underbelly of Parisian society wh...
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...