Proposal (first plate)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1898, printed before 1923
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.7 × 23.1 cm (10 9/16 × 9 1/8 in.); Sheet: 40.9 × 27.5 cm (16 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63608
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...