Polin, from Treize Lithographies
Medium
Lithograph on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.7 × 23.4 cm (11 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Sheet: 38.7 × 31.5 cm (15 1/4 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
147132
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...