Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"
Medium
Blue crayon heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
18 1/2 x 11 in. (47 x 28 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Ruth A. Mueller, 2015
Accession Number
2018.854.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Félix Fénéon · 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...