The Hairdresser, Program for the Théâtre Libre
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 35.3 × 26.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.1 × 32.5 cm (19 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
67134
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Just as Japanese printmakers studied the lives of women in the Yoshiwara licensed pleasure quarters, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec represented contemporary women in Parisian theaters, cafes, and brothels. The black outlines and flat colors in this work may have been inspired by ToulouseLautrec's own collection of Japanese prints. Since color lithography requires separate stone blocks for each color, Toulouse-Lautrec was able to parallel the effects achieved in the Japanese woodcut technique. He was...
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...