Reine de Joie
Medium
Color lithograph, reduced from poster
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (15.9 x 14 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number
49.55.164
Tags
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s *Reine de Joie* (1892) is a vibrant color lithograph originally created as a poster and later reduced to its intimate sheet size of 6 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. As a master of graphic art, Toulouse-Lautrec used the medium’s bold lines and layered colors to capture the lively social world of fin-de-siècle Paris. The work’s classification as a print and its inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alfred Stieglitz Collection highlight its dual role as both commercial design and fine art. Toulouse-Lautrec’s style combined swift, expressive drawing with a keen eye for m...
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...