A woman wearing a bonnet and an orange dress holds a small cat.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A line drawing printed in green with added colors shows a woman in a long carmine colored dress cradling a small black cat in her arms close in front of her. She wears a light colored bonnet with a large bow and her dress has puffed shoulders and frilly sleeves. She faces the viewer and turns her head slightly to the right while the cat, wearing a bright yellow bow around its neck, stares wide-eyed straight ahead. Behind her a grid of lines suggest a wall in the background. The name “May Belfort” is hand lettered across the lower right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13474
People
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé)
Title
May Belfort
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1895
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/272512

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on tan wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
80.1 × 61.3 cm (31 9/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in stone, below image: [lower left:] HTL [Toulouse-Lautrec mongram] [lower center:] May Belfort / Kleinmann, 8, rue de la Victorie

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Knoedler & Co., New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Delteil 354; Adriani 126; Wittrock P14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
M13474
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helen Burnham, Mary Weaver Chapin, and Joanna Wendel, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2019), pp. 84-85, 106, cat. no. 40, repr. p. 85

Exhibition History

  • Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 04/07/2019 - 08/04/2019

Verification Level

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