May Belfort, Title page for "Treize Lithographies"
1898, published after 1901
Medium
Crayon lithograph on china paper, pasted onto green linen portfolio cover
Dimensions
sheet: 11 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (29.1 x 24 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number
49.55.328
Tags
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...