Cover for Les Courtes Joies
1897, printed and published 1925
Medium
Lithograph over a fawn tint from a second stone on grayish laid china paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.2 × 24.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 36.7 cm (11 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82015
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...