Madame Réjane
Medium
Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
18-1/2 x 13 in. (47.0 x 32.99 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, 1958
Accession Number
58.621.2
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Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s 1898 lithograph *Madame Réjane* captures the celebrated French actress Gabrielle Réjane, a star of the Parisian stage during the Belle Époque. Known for his incisive portrayals of entertainers and cabaret life, Toulouse-Lautrec here presents a poised, elegant figure whose expressive features and fashionable attire reflect the glamour of late-nineteenth-century theater. The work belongs to the artist’s mature period, when he turned increasingly to printmaking as a means of reaching wider audiences beyond the gallery walls. As a lithograph on wove paper, the print de...
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...