Au Pied du Sinaï, Rejected Cover
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1897, published 1898
Medium
Lithograph on thick gray-tan Japan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.1 × 41.8 cm (10 5/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Sheet: 29.1 × 52.6 cm (11 1/2 × 20 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63603
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...