Miss May Belfort Taking a Bow
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.5 × 27 cm (14 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 52.7 × 37.2 cm (20 3/4 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55800
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...