Playbill for "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite" (The Little Clay Cart)
Medium
Lithograph printed in blue
Dimensions
Height: 17 5/16 in. (44 cm) Width: 11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Ruth A. Mueller, 2015
Accession Number
2018.854.2
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...