Cover for Le Fardeau de la Liberté
Medium
Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16 × 16.1 cm (6 5/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21.1 × 18.5 cm (8 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53321
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...