Aristide Bruant, from Le Café-Concert
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.9 × 21.7 cm (10 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet, folded, at top and bottom margins: 40.8 × 29.3 cm (16 1/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80608
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...