Seated Woman from Behind - Study for "Au Moulin Rouge"
Medium
oil on cardboard
Dimensions
Overall: 59.7 x 39.4 cm (23 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.) framed: 90.2 x 70.5 x 7 cm (35 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1994.59.12
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...