Proposal (first plate)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1898, published 1899
Medium
Lithograph, with text added, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, without text: 26.3 × 23 cm (10 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 26.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72719
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...