Washing
Medium
Lithograph printed in two colors
Dimensions
20-7/16 x 15-3/4 in. (51.9 x 40.0 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.169
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Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's *Washing* (1896) captures an intimate moment of a nude woman in the act of bathing, rendered as a striking two-color lithograph measuring 20-7/16 x 15-3/4 inches. This print, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, the artist's mastery of lithography—a technique he revolutionized in the 1890s by layering bold colors to create vivid, affordable images that blurred the line fine art and popular postersA leading Post-Impressionist, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in the gritty glamour of fin-de-siècle Paris, particularly the bro...
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...