Miss May Belfort (Large Plate)
Medium
Crayon and spatter lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper; first state
Dimensions
Image: 19 9/16 × 13 3/8 in. (49.7 × 34 cm) Sheet: 22 13/16 × 16 1/8 in. (57.9 × 41 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.162
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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...