Cover for L'Etoile rouge
Medium
Lithograph on tan or gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.3 × 24.3 cm (8 13/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 31 × 35.3 cm (12 1/4 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74978
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...