May Belfort
Medium
Lithograph printed in four colors
Dimensions
31 1/2 x 24in. (80 x 61cm)
Classification
Prints|Posters
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 1941
Accession Number
41.12.1
Tags
WomenCats
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|May Belfort · 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...