Buy my Pretty Violets, from Mélodies de Désiré Dihau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1895, printed 1935
Medium
Lithograph, with lithographic text, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.4 × 16.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 35.3 × 27.3 cm (13 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68156
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...