Mademoiselle Cocyle as Helen of Troy in La Belle Helene
Medium
Graphite and red chalk, with touches of black crayon, heightened with traces of white chalk, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
35.1 × 25.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22859
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...