Edmée Lescot, from Le Café-Concert
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.9 × 19 cm (10 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.8 × 32.3 cm (17 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4596
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...