Cover of L'Estampe originale, with notes
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory wove China paper
Dimensions
Image: 8.2 × 9.1 cm (3 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.); Sheet: 13.2 × 16.4 cm (5 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15988
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...