Carnival
Medium
Crayon and brush lithograph with scraper printed in olive green and red on wove paper trimmed at plate mark; third state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 3/8 in. (24.8 x 16.2 cm) Image: 10 5/8 × 8 1/8 in. (27 × 20.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number
49.55.152
Tags
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...