Cover for Au pied du Sinaï
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1897, published 1898
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.3 × 41.2 cm (10 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 55.6 cm (14 15/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
134558
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...