L'Artisan Moderne
Medium
Lithograph poster on tan wove paper, laid down on fabric
Dimensions
Image: 90.1 × 64.1 cm (35 1/2 × 25 1/4 in.); Sheet: 92.8 × 64.9 cm (36 9/16 × 25 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13602
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...