Bar of the Café of the rue de Rome
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
c. 1886
Medium
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping and erasing, on blue wove paper
Dimensions
34.4 × 46.2 cm (13 9/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15773
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...