Moulin Rouge, La Goulue
Medium
Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 189 × 115.7 cm (74 7/16 × 45 9/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 191 × 117 cm (75 1/4 × 46 1/8 in.)
Classification
poster
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82287
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Moulin Rouge, La Goulue was Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster, created to advertise the performance of dancer La Goulue and acrobat Valentin le Desossé at the iconic Montmartre dance hall. With thousands of copies pasted around Paris, the poster was an instant success, propelling Toulouse-Lautrec into the artistic limelight and attracting numerous commissions from other performers and cabaret owners. In this image, Toulouse-Lautreccaptured the exhilarating experience of being onstage,...
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...