The Manor Lady or the Omen (La chatelaine ou le tocsin)
Medium
lithograph in turquoise and light blue [poster]
Dimensions
image: 57.2 x 45.1 cm (22 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.) sheet: 65.5 x 50 cm (25 13/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.156
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...