Au Pied de l'Echafaud
Medium
Lithograph poster on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 82.5 × 58.1 cm (32 1/2 × 22 7/8 in.); Sheet: 82.5 × 59.8 cm (32 1/2 × 23 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60649
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...