An Old Song, plate five from Yvette Guilbert
1898, printed 1930
Medium
Lithograph (crayon with scraper) in olive-green on cream wove paper hinged at top corners to gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.5 × 24.2 cm (11 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Primary support: 34.9 × 26.8 cm (13 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 49.7 × 37.1 cm (19 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
6165
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...