Cover for L'exemple de Ninon de Lenclos amoureuse
Medium
Lithograph with letterpress text added in blue on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, without monogram: 18.5 × 23.2 cm (7 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Image, with monogram: 18.5 × 24 cm (7 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet, cut: 18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47209
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...