Adolphe—The Sad Young Man
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.6 × 16.6 cm (10 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 27.2 × 17.1 cm (10 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55741
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...