A Scene from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène

Description

A Scene from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dates to 1900. The lithograph draws its subject from Jacques Offenbach’s comic operetta and translates a theatrical moment into Lautrec’s economical graphic language.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues A Scene from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène as a lithograph in its Drawings and Prints collection. The work belongs to Lautrec’s turn-of-the-century printmaking practice, using the directness of lithography to capture contemporary performance.