Cover for L'Estampe originale
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 57.4 × 81.3 cm (22 5/8 × 32 1/16 in.); Sheet: 58.5 × 82.6 cm (23 1/16 × 32 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13623
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...