Snobbery
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
published April 24, 1897
Medium
Color photorelief on coated ivory wove chine
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 20.4 cm (7 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 32.7 cm (9 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
photorelief
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90227
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...