Poster for Elles
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, incl. text: 58.3 × 47.5 cm (23 × 18 3/4 in.); Primary support: 62.8 × 48.7 cm (24 3/4 × 19 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 67.8 × 53.8 cm (26 3/4 × 21 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63598
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...