Miss May Belfort (Medium Plate)
Medium
Crayon, brush, and spatter lithograph printed in dark olive green on wove paper; only state
Dimensions
Image: 17 1/8 × 12 9/16 in. (43.5 × 31.9 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 × 14 15/16 in. (54 × 37.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.163
Tags
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|H. Stern|May Belfort|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...