La Gitane
Medium
Color lithograph poster on two sheets of cream wove paper, laid down on unbleached Irish linen
Dimensions
Image: 91.5 × 63.3 cm (36 1/16 × 24 15/16 in.); Sheet: 95.5 × 64.6 cm (37 5/8 × 25 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72717
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...