Cover for Elles
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image to fold: 57.1 × 46.2 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.); Sheet, folded: 57.1 × 47.2 cm (22 1/2 × 18 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
36002
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...