The Old Gentlemen
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1894, published before 1910
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.5 × 16.5 cm (9 11/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 52.9 × 40.7 cm (20 7/8 × 16 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7115
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...