Divan Japonais
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1892–93
Medium
Lithograph printed in four colors, wove paper
Dimensions
31-13/16 x 23-15/16 in. (80.8 x 60.8 cm)
Classification
Prints|Posters
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, 1958
Accession Number
58.621.17
Tags
MenWomen
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...