Le Margoin (Mademoiselle Louise Blouet)
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.6 × 25 cm (12 1/2 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 35.9 cm (19 15/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35945
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created this lithograph, *Le Margoin (Mademoiselle Louise Blouet)*, in 1900, near the end of his brief but brilliant career. A leading Post-Impressionist, the French artist is renowned for his vivid portrayals of Parisian nightlife, cabarets, and the distinctive personalities who populated them. This portrait, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, reflects his gift for capturing character with economy and flair. Lithography was central to Toulouse-Lautrec’s practice. By drawing directly on stone with greasy crayons, he achieved fluid, painterly lines and striking cont...
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...