The Chestnut Vendor
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1897, printed and published 1925
Medium
Lithograph on grayish-ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 × 17.8 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 37 × 26.5 cm (14 5/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63614
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...