Luce Myrès (Front View)
Medium
Crayon and spatter lithograph printed in sanguine on wove paper; only state
Dimensions
Image: 14 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (36.5 × 24.5 cm) Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in. (51 × 37.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Philip Hofer, 1934
Accession Number
34.81.1
Tags
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Edouard Kleinmann · 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...