The Arton Trial (first plate)
Medium
Lithograph on tan wove paper, laid down on cream Japan tissue
Dimensions
Image: 36.4 × 47.2 cm (14 3/8 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 46 × 62.2 cm (18 1/8 × 24 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35857
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...