Cover Design for "Les Vieilles Histoires"
Medium
Lithograph printed in olive green on wove paper; first state of two; proof apart from the edition of ca.100 printed in black
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 1/8 × 24 1/4 in. (46 × 61.6 cm) Image: 13 3/8 × 21 1/4 in. (34 × 54 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.50.269
Tags
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|G. Ondet|Jean Goudezki · 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...