Hussars
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 21.5 x 27 cm (8 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.) mount: 27 x 32.5 cm (10 5/8 x 12 13/16 in.) framed: 29.9 x 35.6 x 3.5 cm (11 3/4 x 14 x 1 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1994.59.14
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...