Miss May Belfort (large plate)
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, not incl. stray marks: 54.1 × 42.6 cm (21 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.); Sheet: 69.2 × 52.3 cm (27 1/4 × 20 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40626
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 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...