The Butterflies, from Mélodies de Désiré Dihau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1895, published 1935
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.4 × 19.5 cm (8 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.2 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
67149
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...