Émilie

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Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date: late 1890s
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. (41.3 x 32.4 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #DDCF9D · 66%

Slate Night · Black family · #242D38 · 7%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #C3AE74 · 7%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7A733F · 5%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A89659 · 5%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #DEC77B · 4%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2E3F3B · 3%

Wheat Straw · Yellow family · #C6AC4C · 1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #596868 · 1%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #402A21 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #5D6870 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #B78778 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #DDB89B · <1%

Lemon Tempera · Yellow family · #FEF1C2 · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A6B29F · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #AEAFA1 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1A3658 · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #94A0A9 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973

11 tags

Human Figure Visual · 99%

A seated woman is the dominant foreground subject, shown in profile and occupying much of the lower composition.
Animals Metadata · 100%

The museum catalog explicitly lists Horses among the subjects.
Equestrian Both · 99%

The image clearly shows a mounted rider on horseback, while the catalog lists Horses as a subject.
Portrait Both · 75%

The composition centers on a single individualized woman in profile, and the title supplies a personal name, supporting a portrait reading without establishing the sitter’s identity.
Movement Visual · 82%

The horse is shown in apparent motion across the right background, contrasting with the relatively still seated foreground figure.

Asymmetrical Visual · 95%

The composition is distinctly off-center, with the large foreground figure offset from the smaller rider and horse at right and cropped by the lower edge.

Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 92%

Broad, broken strokes and visibly worked passages are apparent in the clothing, vegetation, ground, and sky.
Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog identifies the medium as oil on wood.

Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated by the catalog to 1897–1899, within the late nineteenth century.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Émilie. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.