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
Rights
Public Domain
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...