Cover for Jouets de Paris
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1900, published 1901
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.7 × 10.4 cm (8 3/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Sheet: 22 × 31.4 cm (8 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47225
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...