The Chatelaine, or 'Le Tocsin'
Medium
Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 53.5 × 40.4 cm (21 1/8 × 15 15/16 in.); Sheet: 56.9 × 44.6 cm (22 7/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23674
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...