Miss Loïe Fuller
Medium
Brush and spatter lithograph printed in five colors on wove paper; only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (38 × 25.8 cm) Image: 14 1/2 × 10 3/16 in. (36.8 × 25.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1970
Accession Number
1970.534
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Miss Loïe Fuller (1893)**, a vibrant brush and spatter lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Laut in collaboration with André Marty and Ancourt, captures the allure of the era's most innovative dancer. Printed in five colors on wove paper, sole-state print measures about 15 by 10 inches and hails from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, acquired through the Rogers Fund in 0. Toulouse-Lautrec, a of Parisian nightlife scenes, immortalized Loïe Fuller, the American performer who dazzled fin-de-siècle audiences at venues like the Folies Bergère with her fluid, fabric-swirl...
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|André Marty|Edward Ancourt · 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...