Reine de Joie par Victor Joze
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.97.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec *Reine de Joie Victor Joze* is a captivating print that captures the vibrant, shadowy underbelly of Belle Époque Paris. Created by the Post-Impressionist master known for his bold depictions of Montmartre's nightlife,arets, and demi-monde figures, this work likely served as a promotional poster or illustration for Victor Joze's *La Reine de Joie*Queen of Joy), aqué tale of Parisian pleasure-seekers. Acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1921, it now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, exemplifying Lautrec's innovative contribution...
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...