Cover for "L'estampe originale" (Couverture de "L'estampe originale")
Medium
6-color lithograph (key stone in olive-green)
Dimensions
image: 56.3 x 64.2 cm (22 3/16 x 25 1/4 in.) sheet: 57.6 x 83 cm (22 11/16 x 32 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1952.8.321
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...