Madame Simon-Girard, Brasseur and Guy in La belle Hélène
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 52.9 × 45.4 cm (20 7/8 × 17 7/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 70.6 × 55.4 cm (27 13/16 × 21 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46123
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...