The Final Outing (from Les Vieilles Histoires)
Medium
Brush and spatter lithograph printed in black on mounted wove paper; only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 13/16 in. (36 × 27.5 cm) Image: 10 7/16 × 7 3/16 in. (26.5 × 18.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.146
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Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec *The Final Outing*, the 1893 series *Les Vieilles Hist* (Old Stories), captures poignant moment of nostalgia and human connection. Created in collaboration with printers Jean Goudezki andouard Kleinmann, this and spatter lithograph depicts elderly figures—likely on a final promenade—adorned with distinctive hats, evoking the passage of time and faded grandeur. Produced during the vibrant fin-de-siècle Paris, Lautrec's Post-Impressionist vision often celebrated the city's underbelly, but here he turns to melancholic vignettes inspired by old tales, blending humor and p...
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Jean Goudezki|Edouard Kleinmann · 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...