Seated Clowness (La Clownesse assise)
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper [bon a tirer proof]
Dimensions
overall: 51.8 x 40 cm (20 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Rosenwald, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.30.1
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...