Cover and Frontispiece to Les Vieilles Histoires
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.4 × 54.2 cm (13 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 61.3 cm (17 13/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63571
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...