Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant
Medium
Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 147.2 × 99.9 cm (58 × 39 3/8 in.)
Classification
poster
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63620
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...