Floréal, from Mélodies de Désiré Dihau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1895, printed and published 1935
Medium
Lithograph, with text added, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.1 × 18.3 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 34.8 × 27.4 cm (13 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68153
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...