Brandès and le Bargy, in Les Cabotins
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 43.2 × 33.4 cm (17 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Sheet: 53.9 × 37.9 cm (21 1/4 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35775
Art Historical Context
Step into the dazzling world of 1890s Parisian theater with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec *Brandès and le Bargy in Les Cabotins (1894). This color lithograph captures two prominent actors, Edmond Brandès and Georges Le Bargy, in a playful pose from the comedic play *Les Cabotins*The Ham Actors"). Toulouse-Lautrec, a Post-Impressionist master of the Belle Époque, immortalized the bohemian nightlife of Montmartre, blending sharp social observation with bold, expressive lines. Printed on cream wove paper (image: 43.2 × 33.4 cm), this work exemplifies Lautrec's revolutionary use of color lithography....
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...