Confetti
1894 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi
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About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1894
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 54.5 × 38 cm
- Collection
- Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
A laughing young woman in a hat throws up her hands as a shower of confetti falls around her, and the word Confetti curls across the top of the sheet. Toulouse-Lautrec designed the poster in 1894 for the London stationers J. & E. Bella, who made paper confetti after the plaster kind was banned at the Paris carnival; it was printed in London by Bella & de Malherbe. The spattered colour (crachis), the loose brush line and the cheerful subject make it one of his lightest posters, and his only one made for an English firm. The impression reproduced belongs to the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A laughing figure in soft orange and black on cream, for a bedroom, dressing room or hallway at 12×18 or 16×24 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or pale pink wall and pairs with the May Milton poster.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
Is this the whole painting, or a crop?
Is Confetti in the public domain?
What is it printed on?
When was Confetti painted, and in what medium?
What size works above a sofa or bed?
About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
