La Macarona in the Costume of a Jockey
Medium
Oil paint and watercolor, over charcoal, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream woodpulp card
Dimensions
61.9 × 48.7 cm (24 3/8 × 19 3/16 in.)
Classification
oil paintings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80091
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...